Jim Jordan is subpoenaing a former attorney from the Manhattan District Attorney’s office who resigned in protest after Bragg wouldn’t pursue criminal charges against Trump o er his finances.
There was a request from Jordan for Mark Pomerantz to appear voluntarily, but he declined. Thus the subpoena:
FOX NEWS – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan on Thursday subpoenaed former New York County Special Assistant District Attorney Mark Pomerantz to testify on the role he played investigating former President Trump’s finances before resigning in protest when Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg initially declined to charge Trump with crimes.
In a letter attached to the Thursday subpoena to Pomerantz, Jordan said Pomerantz “publicly criticized Bragg for failing to aggressively prosecute President Trump and even wrote a memoir describing his eagerness to investigate President Trump and disclosing internal deliberations about the investigation.”
“Although you claim that you were ‘able to put aside [your] personal feelings about [President] Trump’ during the investigation, the depth of your personal animosity towards him is apparent in your writing,” Jordan wrote.
“You wrote of President Trump: ‘I saw him as a malignant narcissist, and perhaps even a megalomaniac who posed a real danger to the country and the ideals that mattered to me. His behavior made me angry, sad, and even disgusted,'” Jordan said, quoting from Pomerantz’s book, People vs. Donald Trump: An Inside Account.
Jordan noted that Pomerantz once said he “marveled at the thought” of being “at the center of what might become one of the most consequential criminal cases ever brought.”
“You reflect on your ‘only similar experience,’ which you indicated was the ‘indictment of Osama bin Laden and other members of al Qaeda for the bombing of the United States embassies in Kenya and Tanzania’,” Jordan wrote.
“Drawing a parallel between these two vastly different matters speaks volumes about the mindset that you brought to the investigation of President Trump,” Jordan said.
The letter said the Committee requested Pomerantz’s voluntary cooperation in March 22, but he refused to comply at the direction of the New York County District Attorney’s Office.
I’m honestly not sure how much bearing this testimony will have on the current indictment and charges in New York, but it does have value in exposing the weaponization of law by these Manhattan prosecutors.
I have my doubts that Pomerantz will actually show up despite the subpoena, because he knows that Biden’s DOJ won’t give two cents about prosecuting him based on a Republican subpoena. He will ignore it and nothing more will come of this.