New York Democrats expressed outrage after House Judiciary Committee Republicans announced they would set an official committee crime hearing near corrupt DA Alvin Bragg’s offices in New York City.
The hearing will involve testimony “from victims of Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s radical policies.”
As The Daily Fetched reported, the committee said the victims had been affected by Bragg’s alleged “failure to prosecute” more typical crimes, which Republicans have accused him of for years.
The hearing, according to the notice, “will examine how Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s pro-crime, anti-victim policies have led to an increase in violent crime and a dangerous community for New York City residents.”
A spokesperson for Bragg reacted angrily to the crime hearing calling it a “political stunt,” adding they Democrats would not “engage in actual efforts to increase public safety, such as supporting national gun legislation and shutting down the iron pipeline.”
The spokesperson even claims some violent crimes in Manhattan have improved since Bragg took office.
However, north Manhattan saw 17 murders this year compared to 12 last year.
But despite minimal improvements over last year in some areas of the city, on the whole, New York City continues to see appalling rates of violent crime.
The committee’s hearing will center on Bragg’s political targeting of Donald Trump while being “soft on crime” in his city.
Judiciary Committee ranking member Rep. Jerry Nadler shared Bragg’s statement while condemning Jim Jordan.
“New Yorkers don’t need to take public safety advice from Jim Jordan, whose ‘tough on crime’ solution is to defund the DOJ and FBI,” Nadler wrote.
The hearing will take place just a few blocks from Adler at the Javits Federal Building in Rep. Dan Goldman’s (D-NY) section of Manhattan.
Goldman said in a statement Jordan is “not welcome” in his district, claiming the scheduled hearing is “at the behest of Donald Trump.
“If Jordan truly cared about public safety, he’d be having a field hearing in Nashville, Tennessee or Louisville, Kentucky, where the most recent of the daily mass shootings have killed more innocent Americans,” Goldman said.
Rep. Jamaal Bowman, who also represents a deeply blue district of New York, accused Jordan of “political theater.”
“Do your job serving Ohio’s 4th district and address the issues Americans care about,” Bowman said. “Your intimidation won’t work. Your political theater here is another embarrassing example of the GOP’s poor governance and obsession with fascism and the disgraced former president.”
Last week, Bragg brought 34 felony charges against Donald Trump.
The charges stem from dubious allegations that Trump allegedly tried to conceal a “hush money” payment made by his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, to adult film star Stormy Daniels.
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This is no political stunt. It is the response to a political stunt.