The mom of a slain Army veteran slammed Democrats for “marching to the same drumbeat” of “Trump and guns” while ignoring crime victims Tuesday — a day after her fiery testimony before lawmakers about Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s soft-on-crime tactics.
Madeline Brame, whose son, Hason Correa, was beaten to death in Harlem in 2018, recounted her emotional testimony Monday at the House Judiciary Committee’s field hearing in Manhattan, where Rep. Dan Goldman (D-Manhattan) referred to the hearing as “a charade.”
“They all march to the same drumbeat – Trump, Trump, Trump, guns, guns, guns — completely ignoring the testimony of the victims sitting right in front of them, the crime that’s happening here in New York and the district attorney refusing to prosecute crime,” Brame railed to The Post Tuesday.
Brame and Goldman got into a heated back and forth as the Dem claimed the Republican-led hearing was just a ruse to distract from Bragg’s criminal case against former President Donald Trump.
He and other Democrats also painted the eight committee witnesses, including Brame and other victims of crime, as political pawns in the GOP’s effort to discredit Bragg.
“I wasn’t having that,” Brame said Tuesday. “That’s why I responded the way I did. He insulted us. He insulted me. He insulted my son. It was spontaneous because I got tired of hearing it at that point.”
Goldman, who represents Lower Manhattan and brownstone Brooklyn, was the last of several Democratic lawmakers at the hearing who called the GOP-led proceedings payback for Bragg’s unprecedented indictment of Trump, 76.
“I couldn’t take it anymore,” Brame said Tuesday. “Dan Goldman was the last one of their lineup of speakers, and I just couldn’t take it anymore because he got a little belligerent. You know, he had the hands going and pointing and all that and he was saying that were being used as props.
“He even called me out by name,” she said. “He said, ‘Sorry about what happened to your son but this is nothing but a charade.’ And that’s when I stopped it.”
Brame’s son was jumped by four siblings outside a Harlem apartment building in 2018. The case languished in court until Bragg took office last year and closed out the cases — with two brothers getting life sentences, another a seven-year term and their sister released after serving 14 months at Rikers Island.
Brame said she was grateful to Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) who chaired the Manhattan hearing.
“Jim Jordan, he put himself out there and he did something extraordinary,” she said. “He gave victims of New York a platform and a seat at the table, something we have been fighting for with the Democratic leadership here for three or four years.
“They have completely ignored us,” she added. “Ostracized. Shunned.”
“You’ve got a panel of seven victims — real-life people telling you this is really happening here. And they were completely ignoring it.”
She credited Jordan with addressing the Democrats’ claim right off the bat at the hearing.
“Jordan, he went around the table and asked each one of us, did we feel like we were being used?” she said. “And my answer was, ‘I’m a willing participant.’”