Manhattan DA Bragg, who secured Trump’s conviction, will testify before GOP-led Judiciary Committee

WASHINGTON — Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who brought the silent case against former President Donald Trump, will testify before the GOP-led House Judiciary Committee in July, along with prosecutor Matthew Colangelo, a source familiar with the plans confirmed Tuesday to NBC News.

The July 12 public hearing at the Capitol will come a day after Trump’s sentencing hearing in New York, after a Manhattan jury found him guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. The Judiciary panel also announced that it will hold a separate hearing this Thursday to “examine Alvin Bragg’s political case against President Trump.”

The hearings come as Trump and his Republican allies on Capitol Hill, including Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, wage war against the justice system. They alleged that Bragg, local Georgia prosecutor Fani Willis, as well as special counsel Jack Smith and other federal prosecutors, are politically targeting Trump ahead of the presidential election.

Jordan announced the upcoming hearing with Bragg on Tuesday morning, just as President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, was found guilty of three federal charges tied to possession of a weapon while using narcotics.

On May 31, Jordan, a conservative firebrand and close Trump ally, formally requested that Bragg and Colangelo — a member of Trump’s trial team and a former Justice Department official — testify before the Judiciary subcommittee on government transformation. in arms, which is also led by Jordan.

Specifically, Jordan said his hearing would explore politically motivated state and local prosecutions, including Bragg’s case against Trump.

On Friday, Bragg’s general counsel, Leslie Dubeck, responded that he would be willing to testify but needed a new hearing date to allow for the fair administration of justice in the Trump case, which will continue until the July 11 sentencing.

She also requested an opportunity to speak with Jordan’s team about the “scope and purpose of the proposed hearing” so that he can “accommodate the Committee’s invitation while protecting the integrity of an ongoing criminal case and the sovereign interests of New York”.