Republican Congressman Andy Biggs of Arizona has introduced legislation that would strip federal funding from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office.
Fox News correspondent Bryan Llenas provides the backstory on why Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg is suing Rep. Jim Jordan in an effort to stop subpoena over Trump indictment on ‘The Story.’Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office
A pair of bills filed by Biggs would target the Manhattan District Attorney's Office in retaliation for criminally prosecuting Trump onin connection to alleged hush money payments made to porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016. Biggs' second bill, the No Federal Funds for Political Prosecutions Act, would block any state or local law enforcement agency from using resources seized through asset forfeiture to prosecute a president, vice president or a candidate for president in a criminal case.
"District Attorney Alvin Bragg ran on a campaign pledge to indict President Trump. Bragg took the unprecedented action of converting alleged minor business misdemeanors to 34 individual felonies in an attempt to put President Trump behind bars and humiliate him and his supporters,""This weaponized prosecutor's office has spent thousands of federal taxpayer dollars to subsidize this political indictment and is demanding millions more in federal grants," he continued.
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