Republicans appear apt to blame everything on Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who’s overseeing the case against Trump. He’s their bogeyman.
As a Manhattan grand jury works through a potential indictment against former President Donald Trump, Republicans are figuring out who to blame if charges are brought against their perpetual party leader.hush money payments to porn actress Stormy Daniels after he had an affair with her in 2006. And it doesn’t appear as if Republicans will blame Michael Cohen, Trump’s then-lawyer who helped concoct the hush-money scheme in 2016.
Bragg has signaled he wouldn’t comply with GOP attempts to haul him before Congress. Over the weekend, the trio suggested“When he says he’s not going to cooperate with Congress, unfortunately for Mr.
Then there’s an entirely other end of Republican rhetoric, like that from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene , who’s“it’s time to arrest Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg for prosecutorial misconduct after hiding hundreds of pages of exculpatory evidence.” Greene hasn’t supplied evidence for those claims, but she has further insisted that Bragg is “breaking the law and trying to incite civil unrest.”
Democrats say Bragg is being used as a sort of scapegoat for the GOP—and that Republicans are searching for someone to blame for Trump’s apparent wrongdoings. Rep. Pramila Jayapal , who serves on the House Judiciary Committee, said she expects Republicans would continue to defend Trump “no matter what his problem was.”Over in the Senate, some ardent Trump supporters think the Republican brouhaha over Bragg has its place. Republicans there are in the minority and don’t have power to go after Bragg in committee. But they’re cheering on House colleagues—even while having some doubts about what can be accomplished there, too.
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