Within hours of Donald Trump announcing his looming arrest, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy didn’t just voice his support for the former president, the California Republican also directed House committee chairs to investigate the work of the Manhattan district attorney’s office. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan wasted no time in followed those directions.
In the days that followed, Jordan and Alvin Bragg’s office have traded a series of unpleasant messages, culminating in a warning to the Ohio Republican last week about “unlawful political interference.”
But the GOP congressman hasn’t just made dubious requests to the local prosecutor. Two weeks ago, Jordan also requested testimony, documents, and communications from Mark Pomerantz, the former New York County special assistant district attorney. Yesterday, as Politico reported, the Judiciary Committee chairman upped the ante.
The House GOP on Thursday fired off its first subpoena in its investigation of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office, escalating a standoff over the indictment of former President Donald Trump. House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) is summoning Mark Pomerantz, a former county special assistant district attorney, to appear behind closed doors for a deposition on April 20, according to a copy of the subpoena viewed by POLITICO.
If Pomerantz’s name sounds at all familiar, it’s not your imagination. The prosecutor used to work in Bragg’s office and was directly involved in the investigation into the former president. Pomerantz resigned in frustration in February 2022, concluding that the Manhattan district attorney’s reluctance to indict Trump at the time was a bridge too far.
Why in the world would Jordan subpoena him? Probably because the Ohioan believes Bragg’s office didn’t want to charge Trump, and in fact didn’t indict Trump last year, but local prosecutors were pressured into it by nefarious schemers desperate to “weaponize” government.
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