Jim Jordan’s sordid attack on possible Trump charges demands an answer
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This week, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and other top Republicans sent a letter to Bragg demanding documents and testimony related to expectations that Bragg might charge Trump over a hush-money payment to a porn actress in 2016. The letter declared this an “unprecedented abuse of prosecutorial authority,” even though no charges have been filed.
But it’s not clear that Jordan, the Judiciary Committee chair, has thought this through. The course of action signaled by the letter — also signed by Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) — could go sideways for Republicans in unforeseen ways.
Democrats are examining whether a protracted struggle over the GOP demands of Bragg could provide an opening to shed light on the highly irregular nature of this GOP interference on Trump’s behalf.
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