Second update on the following main story that keeps growing almost daily now
by the Republicans in charge of the House in the revenge trip of saving Trump
from any indictment for any crime as they go further down the hole to nail the
Manhattan DA, Alvin Bragg and that Grand Jury in NYC – reported on here from NBC NEWS with this from that whack job Rep.
Jim Jordan (R-OH) and this headline:
“Jim
Jordan requests testimony from ex-prosecutors, expanding probe into Manhattan
DA”
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) has
now requested testimony from two former prosecutors, expanding the Republican’s
investigation into Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg amid the grand jury probe of Trump.
This follows the first update (see next) and both are tied
to the original article that follows after that (and as I said this Jordan
whatever thing is growing into la-la land for sure). This from NBC News:
Jordan sent letters to two former prosecutors, Mark Pomerantz and
Carey Dunne, who were involved in a criminal investigation of Trump and the Trump
Organization. Those two abruptly resigned from the Manhattan DA’s office last
year.
At the time, The NY Times,
cited two sources who reported that the resignations came after DA Bragg began
to back away from the probe into Trump and his company, and had paused the
Grand Jury testimony.
Now, in his letters to
those two former prosecutors, Jordan requests that they testify in a
transcribed interview “as soon as possible and to turn over documents and
information from Jan 2017 to the present.”
Jordan wrote to
Pomerantz: “Last year, you resigned from the office over Bragg’s initial
reluctance to move forward with charges, shaming Bragg in your resignation
letter — which was subsequently leaked — into bringing charges.”
Jordan continued:
“Based on your unique role in this matter, and your subsequent public
statements prejudicing the impartiality of any prosecution, we request your
cooperation with our oversight of this politically motivated prosecutorial
decision.”
In his letter to
Dunne, Jordan wrote that his resignation was: “Over Bragg’s initial
reluctance to move forward with charges in 2022, and that Bragg is now
attempting to ‘shoehorn’ the same case with identical facts into a new
prosecution.”
Stay tuned. I suspect more
will follow based on DA Bragg’s response to Jordan from AXIOS just reported here with this headline:
“Manhattan DA sends scathing response to
GOP’s request for testimony”
First update and original
article follow:
First update on following main post reported on here from SALON.com with this key part of the article that shows without any doubt just how three key GOP committee chairs are truly sleazy as part of this “new” GOP with this story headline:
“House GOP leaders lash out
at Manhattan DA over Trump’s possible arrest”
A trio of House committee leaders: Judiciary Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH); Oversight Chairman Rep. James
Comer (R-KY); and Administration Chairman Rep. Bryan Steil (R-WI) sent DA
Alvin Bragg (D-NY) the Manhattan DA, a four-page letter attacking Trump’s possible the indictment and asking
for documents related to it, saying in part:
“You are reportedly about
to engage in an unprecedented abuse of prosecutorial authority,” the letter
began, while echoing Trump’s criticisms they accused Bragg of “searching for a
basis — any basis to prosecute the former president.
Noteworthy: Bragg’s
office said prosecutors would not be deterred by the congressional letter, and
a spokesperson said: “We will not be intimidated by attempts to undermine the
justice process, nor will we let baseless accusations deter us from fairly
applying the law.”
House Republicans up
and down the line also attempted to use the possibility of an arrest to
fundraise and build a campaign list – cite this email from RNC: “The
Radical Left is trying to use this latest witch hunt to intimidate you. House
Republicans will stand strong against these fear tactics and threats. But we
can’t do it alone. Our country is at a turning point. We need every single
patriot to immediately condemn this witch hunt.”
The RNC email then asks
for supporters to click a link to “condemn the witch hunt” and that link leads
to a page where users can make a campaign contribution and provide their
personal information to the committee.
I add: All that sounds like something Trump would encourage the RNC
to do on his behalf and of course theirs too – that is: To raise a ton of money
for him and the RNC.
My short retort: That is sick and very pathetic.”
The original post follows from here:
Pathetic story from the Chairman of GOP-run House
Oversight Committee Rep. James Comer (R-KY) with this headline from The
Hill:
“Comer agrees it
could be politically unsustainable to investigate Kushner”
Comer from KY, agreed that it could be politically
unsustainable to investigate Jared Kushner — Trump’s son-in-law who
served as a senior advisor in the White House. That in profile from The
New York Times.
The Times interviewed Comer for six hours and posted that he
said he did not rule out probing Kushner’s business dealings, but agreed with a
reporter who suggested it might be politically unsustainable for him to
investigate Kushner, saying: “I don’t disagree with what you said.”
Comer gained control
of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee in January, when
Republicans took control of the House.
The panel plays a central
role in the House GOP’s investigative oversight, and the conference has vowed
probes into a number of areas, including President Biden’s family, the
situation at the southern border and the messy withdrawal from Afghanistan in
2021.
However, in his roughly
first two months on the job, Comer eliminated a probe looking into Kushner’s
business dealings.
The panel launched an
investigation into Kushner in June 2022, when it was still in Democrats’ hands,
zeroing in on whether or not the president’s son-in-law’s personal financial
interests improperly influenced U.S. foreign policy during the Trump
administration.
Democrats asked Kushner for documents related to an investment his firm, A Fin Management, LLC (Affinity), received from the Saudi Government soon after he departed the White House.
FYI: Kushner got $2 billion directly from Saudi
Prince MBS shortly after he left the White House.
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), the ranking Democrat on the
Oversight committee re-upped that request in a letter to Kushner last
month after his firm saying: “You failed to substantially comply with our requests,
including by failing to produce the key documents we are seeking.”
Asked about investigating questions regarding Kushner’s ties to the Saudis, Comer told ABC’s “This Week” last month that “everything’s on the table” but turned to the panel’s probe into the Biden family’s business dealings, Comer said: “I don’t disagree with the Democrats and their criticism of the previous administration. We have a problem here that needs a legislative solution. That’s why this Biden investigation is so important. There’s a legislative solution to this, and it can be bipartisan. The Democrats complained about Kushner’s foreign dealings. Republicans are certainly complaining about the entire Biden family’s foreign business dealings. We need to know what is allowable and what isn’t allowable. We need to have strict ethics laws. And we need to significantly increase the disclosure laws in America. So I think this investigation is going to be very important to fix a problem before it gets out of hand.”
Pressed on if that sentiment should apply to both Kushner and the Bidens, Comer added: “I believe that when we talk about passing legislation to set a line as to where you can be with relatives of high-ranking government officials with respect to doing business with adversaries overseas, then it would apply to everyone. We need to fix this before it gets worse in the next administration.”
In the Times profile, however, Comer said he was not interested in Trump’s finances. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee highlighted the Times profile writing: “That it raises new questions about Rep. Comer’s credibility.”
Lest we forget The Donald’s and Jared Kushner’s ties to China that date back a long time, much longer than to any Biden family member as reported on from CAP; and Slate; and recently from Newsweek, and from many other media sources.
Comer's mission in life or so it seems: After the 2022 midterm elections resulted in a House
Republican majority, Comer said as the House Oversight Committee Chairman that
his focus would be to investigate President Joe Biden, particularly him and
his relationship with his family's foreign partners and whether he is a
president is compromised or swayed by foreign dollars and influence.
Soon after he became Chairman, he responded in January 2023
to Biden’s classified documents incident by calling for visitor logs for
Biden's residence, where Biden's lawyers found some classified documents from
his vice presidency; the same day. On the same day, Comer also said that he
would not call for visitor logs for Trump's residence Mar-a-Lago,
where an FBI search found over 100 highly classified documents despite
Trump and his lawyers claiming that no such documents were there.
Comer said he would investigate Biden because: “Biden hasn’t been investigated, and there have been so many investigations of President Trump. I don’t feel like we need to spend a whole lot of time investigating President Trump.”
In early March, Comer confirmed that he had ended a House
investigation into Trump's financial dealings, in which Trump's former
accounting company, Mazars USA, had been turning over documents as part of
a court-supervised settlement.
Those documents provided information on how foreign
governments patronized the Trump International Hotel. Comer said he didn’t even
know who or what Mazars was, and that he was instead investigating “money the
Bidens received from China.”
Of course Comer looks past those Trump ties to China posted
above, right? I wonder why? (wink, wink).
My 2 Cents: Rep. Comer is
a pathetic partisan hack and weasel just like Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) and his
fantasy about hanging the Biden’ out to dry and a few other harsh Republicans –
Trump always mentions being the DEM target of a witch hunt – well, Mr. Trump
look no further than to your own sycophants in the GOP House.
And, BTW, sorry, but a
Rick Perry debate style oops won’t suffice to cover you like it did him.
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