House Judiciary Committee chairman Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) escalated Republican politicians’ investigation into the Manhattan district attorney’s indictment of former President Donald Trump by subpoenaing a district attorney on Thursday who resigned from the workplace in 2015 over the district lawyer’s preliminary reluctance to pursue Trump’s case.
Jordan’s subpoena, examined by Breitbart News, directs Mark Pomerantz, who resigned from Manhattan District Lawyer Alvin Bragg’s office in February 2022, to appear before the committee for a deposition on April 20.
In a cover letter accompanying the subpoena, Jordan stated his committee had legislative reasons to require Pomerantz’s testament.
“Congress has a specific and manifestly essential interest in avoiding politically inspired prosecutions of current and previous Presidents by chosen state and local prosecutors, especially in jurisdictions– like New York County– where the district attorney is popularly chosen and trial-level judges do not have life tenure,” Jordan composed.
Read the cover letter below:
Pomerantz, a previous special assistant designated to the years-long Trump case, exited the Manhattan district lawyer’s office right after Bragg took control of. The move ended up being a public affair when his resignation letter appeared in the New York Times last March.
Pomerantz wrote in the letter to Bragg that he believed Trump was “guilty of many felony violations” connected to his financial declarations which he was giving up since he thought Bragg’s choice at the time to “indefinitely” suspend the examination into Trump was “misguided.”
Mark Pomerantz, author of People vs. Donald Trump: An Inside Account, appears on Meet the Press in Washington, DC, February 12, 2023. (William B. Plowman/NBC through Getty Images) Jordan observed, based on the resignation letter, that Pomerantz had “prejudged the results”of the examination which his vital words of Bragg relatively stimulated the district lawyer to openly state that the Trump investigation was “far from over.”
In November 2022, one week after Trump revealed he was running for president once again, the Times reported that Bragg had actually restored the Trump examination and had actually zeroed in on a hush cash plan involving pornography star Stormy Daniels and Trump’s former individual lawyer Michael Cohen.
“For Mr. Bragg, the hush-money developments suggest the very first indications of development because he took workplace at the start of the year, when he balked at arraigning Mr. Trump in connection with his business practices,” the outlet reported at the time.
Pomerantz later went on to publish a book about the matter, called Individuals vs. Donald Trump: An Inside Account, in which Pomerantz talked about internal issues individuals had about the examination and stress over the credibility of Cohen, a founded guilty felon.
“You explain your passion to investigate President Trump, writing that you were ‘happy’ to sign up with an unsettled group of attorneys encouraging on the Trump investigations, and joking that salary negotiations had gone ‘fantastic’ due to the fact that you would have paid to sign up with the investigation,” Jordan composed of the book.
He included that Pomerantz “frivolously” compared Trump to John Gotti, a well-known New york city City mob employer, and explained him as a “deadly narcissist.”
“The depth of your personal displeasure towards him is evident in your writing,” Jordan concluded.
The subpoena marks Republicans’ strongest relocation yet in their investigation of the New York County’s indictment of Trump amidst questions from some about Congress’s authority to probe open state-level criminal matters.
It comes after Jordan initially contacted Pomerantz on March 22 seeking his statement, along with files and interaction associated to the Trump investigation.
Jordan in his subpoena cover letter referenced correspondence on March 25 from Bragg to Pomerantz, which Breitbart News has evaluated, in which Bragg instructed Pomerantz, a civilian, not to offer Congress with any products pertinent to Pomerantz’s work at the district lawyer’s office.
Pomerantz then told the committee on March 27 that he would be complying with Bragg’s directions rather than Jordan’s requests.
Jordan competed Thursday, nevertheless, that Pomerantz is “uniquely positioned” to provide insight to the Judiciary Committee and that he has “no basis to decline to affirm” given he has actually already made detailed accounts of his deal with the Trump probe commonly public.
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