In a letter to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg Saturday, three House Republican committee chairs threatened to subpoena the prosecutor over his investigation into hush money payments made by former President Donald Trump during the 2016 campaign.
PUBLISHED 10:45 AM EDT Mar. 26, 2023In a letter to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg Saturday, three House Republican committee chairs threatened to subpoena the prosecutor over his investigation into hush money payments made by former President Donald Trump during the 2016 campaign
The case centers on payments Trump made during his 2016 presidential campaign to women who said they had sexual encounters with him, a possibly violation of bookkeeping and campaign finance laws House Oversight Committee chair James Comer, R-Ky., House Judiciary Committee chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and House Administration Committee Chair Bryan Steil, R-Wis., signed the letter.a statement
The case centers on payments Trump made during his 2016 presidential campaign to women who said they had sexual encounters with him. Manhattan prosecutors appear to be looking at the former president's structuring of the payments and whether he attempted to hide a violation of campaign finance law by making an unrecorded, illegal contribution to his campaign in the form of the hush money.
The Kentucky Republican said the decision to subpoena Bragg would ultimately be up to Jordan, who previously faced for refusing to comply last year with a subpoena from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
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