Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene requires Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s arrest for investigating Trump
Far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene demanded on Wednesday that Manhattan District Lawyer Alvin Bragg be jailed for “prosecutorial misconduct” associated to his investigation of former President Donald Trump.
“Now it’s time to arrest Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg for prosecutorial misconduct after hiding a whole bunch of pages of exculpatory proof!” Greene (R-Ga.) wrote in a tweet.
“Bragg is on the verge of indicting an harmless former President and prime Presidential candidate towards the opposing ruling occasion,” she added.
The 49-year-old Manhattan DA is investigating Trump’s position in a 2016 hush-money fee of $130,000 to porn star Stormy Daniels for her to maintain quiet about an alleged 2006 affair with Trump.
Former Trump fixer Michael Cohen claims he organized the fee simply days earlier than the 2016 presidential election, at Trump’s route, and that he was reimbursed by the Trump Organization.
It isn’t clear what “exculpatory proof” Greene was referring to in her tweet, however one chance is some 300 emails that Cohen’s former authorized adviser Robert Costello claims doubtlessly present Cohen mendacity.
Costello, a Trump loyalist who testified on Monday earlier than the Manhattan grand jury convened by Bragg, says the district lawyer has solely allowed jurors to see six of these emails.
“If the grand jury will get to see the opposite 315 emails, he in all probability lied to us one other 50 to 100 occasions … He’d say one factor in a single e mail, and the alternative factor in one other e mail … You must see all of the proof. And I used to be pushing very laborious for that. I advised the grand jury, ‘You may’t imagine Michael Cohen,’” Costello told New York radio host John Catsimatidis on Thursday.
Greene’s name for Bragg’s imprisonment echoes a scathing tweet towards the DA that Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-Ky.) fired off on Tuesday.
“A Trump indictment can be a disgusting abuse of energy. The DA ought to be put in jail,” Paul wrote.
Home Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) also accused Bragg of misconduct this week, writing to the Democratic Manhattan prosecutor on Monday and calling his plans to probably cost Trump “an unprecedented abuse of prosecutorial authority.”
In her tweet, Greene added that “Bragg is breaking the legislation and making an attempt to incite civil unrest along with his Soros funded political warfare.”
“Maintain him accountable!” she pleaded.