The day after Donald Trump was found guilty of 34 felony charges, a House panel sponsored by Trump loyalist Jim Jordan requested that the district attorney who prosecuted the former president testify before Congress next month.
The House Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government announced on X that New York County District Attorney Alvin Bragg, whose office created the case against Mr. Trump, would testify before the subcommittee on June 13. Mr. Jordan also chairs the House Judiciary Committee, which contains the subcommittee.
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The announcement comes after a New York jury convicted Mr. Trump of all 34 counts of falsifying business documents in order to corruptly influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election. The verdict establishes Mr. Trump as the first former president to face a felony conviction.
Mr. Bragg stated after the verdict that “the only voice that matters is the voice of the jury.” Mr. Bragg stated that his team handled the case as if it were any other, despite the fact that the defendant was unlike anyone else in American history.
“I did my job,” he said.
The verdict, as well as the trial as a whole, enraged Republicans, who promised there would be consequences for Mr. Bragg’s investigation, indictment, and subsequent trial.
The subcommittee also demanded that Matthew Colangelo, senior counsel in Mr. Bragg’s office, appear.
It is not the first time the subcommittee has targeted Mr. Bragg. Last year, prior to the indictment, Mr. Jordan wrote to Mr. Bragg, requesting that he speak before the subcommittee.
Mr. Bragg has consistently resisted Mr. Jordan, even filing a lawsuit in federal court to prevent him from interfering in his prosecution of the former president.
Mr. Jordan, for his part, has scheduled Judiciary Committee hearings in New York City to inaccurately portray the city as overrun with violence. Protesters in predominantly Democratic New York City responded with heckling, including chants of “Hey, hey, ho, ho, Jim Jordan’s got to go.”
Mr. Jordan, a hardline Republican and co-founder of the House Freedom Caucus, was instrumental in President Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results. Mr. Trump, for his part, supported Mr. Jordan’s quest for speaker of the House, which ultimately failed owing to opposition from more moderate Republicans.
