House GOP Targets NYC Prosecutors Who Quit Over Trump Probe

House Republicans are exhausting all their options and lashing out in a last-ditch effort to dismantle Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s probe into hush money allegedly paid by former president Donald Trump to a porn star who he shared an affair with.

House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) announced Wednesday night that he had sent letters to two former prosecutors–both of whom resigned from the DA’s office last year after a clash over the direction of the investigation–“demanding” documents and testimony relating to Bragg’s probe into alleged hush money payments the former president organized for adult film actress Stormy Daniels. Jordan sent the letters to Carey Dunne, former Manhattan Special Assistant District Attorney, and Mark Pomerantz, former New York County Special Assistant District Attorney, as reports from the courthouse continue to indicate a Trump indictment is likely.

The pair had been leading the criminal investigation into Trump under former District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. When Vance left and Bragg took office in February of last year, Bragg asked them to stay—but both resigned in protest because Bragg had “indicated to them that he had doubts about moving forward with a case against Mr. Trump,” The New York Times reported at the time.

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