The far-right Heritage Foundation has expressed outrage over the money Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg was forced to spend to shield Trump's election interference case from other far-right conservatives.
According to a hilariously called “exclusive” article from Fox News, the Oversight Project, which Fox describes as “the Heritage Foundation's Good Government Transparency Unit,” revealed through a Freedom of Information Act request that Bragg announced the $1 million expenditure in April. Found. Outside counsel in 2023 “to respond to congressional oversight of his prosecution.”
That is, because Republicans who tout states' rights in Washington were inappropriately interfering in state cases, Bragg should have hired the law firm of Gibson Dunn in Los Angeles to smoothen his prosecution instead of giving in to pressure from Congress. I decided. This infuriates conservatives who are convinced that Donald Trump can do no wrong because they see how innocently he always acts.
On Fox News “exclusive“:
Another tranche of documents says Bragg said it would be in the office's best interest to hire outside counsel to respond to a congressional investigation by then-R-Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan and others.
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The Manhattan District Attorney's Office has approved using funds received as part of the 2019 UniCredit settlement to hire outside counsel related to the congressional investigation into the investigation and prosecution of the Confidential Investigations Unit case.
The email then mentions an attached engagement letter that Bragg signed with Gibson Dunn, and the document mentions Bragg's office's awareness of three House committees investigating Bragg's investigation. former president trump.
Judging by Fox's framing of the story, we should be outraged that Bragg is spending such huge sums of money pursuing Trump while New York City is facing budget cuts and other unrelated crimes are being committed.
Fox spoke with Oversight Project Executive Director Mike Howell, who appears to be very concerned about New York's budget and the city's transformation into a “Third World urban area.”
“It shows the highest focus of this unique kind of ‘all hands on deck’ approach that has been applied to President Trump, when there is nothing but corruption, deviance and crime on the streets,” Howell said.
deviation? Has there been a spike in street crime linked to the presidential candidate? She was also featured on Forbes magazine's list of adult film stars. Do they then illegally manipulate their business books to cover this up? Because that would be the worst episode of 'The Wire' ever.
“you are [Mayor Eric Adams] Telling people to focus on crime problems just makes the DA spend more and focus on political persecution while New York City goes to hell,” Howell whined.
Of course, it's pretty easy to convince rural Americans that New York City is a crime-ridden hellhole that's only getting worse, but that's simply not true. All the latest figures show that New York City's crime rate is still near historic lows and crime rates remain low. Currently falling. actually, Spike started in the Trump eracrime is happening again downward trend nationwide—This means that Republicans need to find new topics or lie harder. And to suggest that white-collar criminals should not be prosecuted in New York, the financial capital of the world, until every thief and cigar seller has been brought to justice is a very foolish argument, and especially wrong in light of the city's skyrocketing crime rate. Improving the crime situation.
Now to be fair is Scandal here. It's not what Fox News and its viewers think.
In April 2023, shortly after a grand jury indicted Trump on 34 felonies, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan decided that Bragg should stop doing his job. Sexual assault of Ohio State wrestler.. Jordan's interference in the case represented serious excesses and led Bragg to sue Jordan less than a week after Jordan sent a subpoena to prosecutors. demanding “Confidential documents and testimony from the district attorney himself and current and former employees and officials.”
Bragg's lawsuit states that “Congress lacks a valid legislative purpose to engage in an unfettered campaign of harassment in retaliation for the District Attorney's investigation and prosecution of Mr. Trump under New York law,” and that “that campaign constitutes a direct threat that: It is in the interests of federalism and state sovereignty that this court must order a subpoena and stop this constitutionally destructive fishing expedition.”
That means, wait a minute, screaming pious—Stop interfering with national sovereignty just because they arrested your cult leader. That's a really mean look.
Meanwhile, Jordan and his bullshit brigade are still trying to torpedo Bragg's prosecution and help convince him that Bragg's spending to shield his case from congressional interference was money well spent. Bragg is now scheduled to testify before Jordan's House Judiciary Committee on July 12, the day after Trump's sentencing, to publicly answer wacky and unrelated questions that could have easily been resolved by email.
NBC News:
The hearing comes as President Trump and his Republican allies on Capitol Hill, including Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (D-Ohio), are waging war against the justice system. They say Bragg Georgia District Attorney Fanny Willisfurthermore Special Prosecutor Jack Smith And other federal prosecutors are targeting Trump politically ahead of the presidential election.
Jordan announced a hearing with Bragg Tuesday morning, as did President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden. Found guilty on three federal charges It involved having a gun while using drugs.
On May 31, Jordan, a conservative firebrand and close ally of Trump, officially announced his partnership with Bragg. [Matthew] Colangelo, a member of Trump's trial team and former Justice Department official, testifies before the Judiciary Subcommittee on the weaponization of the Jordan-led government.
Wait. Does this mean that all-powerful and corrupt Joe Biden couldn't even stop the federal government from prosecuting his son? But he single-handedly fabricated the New York lawsuit against Trump? Perhaps Trump's conviction was legal after all. Most Americans think that way anyway.
So what we have here is yet another example of extreme GOP chutzpah. Let's break it down:
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Conservatives forced Bragg to defend his case, and he ultimately won. unanimous verdict– I am against interference.
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They then attacked him for successfully defending his case by spending $1 million, which he would not have had to earn if not for their intervention.
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Their main rationale for exempting Trump from all state charges involves the blatant lie that crime is spiraling out of control in New York.
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Finally – and this is the final blow – the solution to the problem of crime that they claim is increasing but is actually decreasing is to elect a president who is a convicted felon.
This is what the modern Republican Party looks like. Sounds good, huh?
There's no doubt that Abraham Lincoln would be rolling over in his grave right now if he hadn't already torn his hamstring from overuse.
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