House GOP postpones Alvin Bragg testimony on Trump New York case

The GOP-led House Judiciary Committee is postponing its hearing for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg to give public testimony on the case he brought against former President Donald Trump.

A source familiar confirmed to the Washington Examiner that the hearing, scheduled for Friday, will be rescheduled after the sentencing for Trump’s hush money trial was delayed until Sept. 18. The former president was supposed to be sentenced on July 11 after being found guilty on all 34 counts related to payments made during his 2016 presidential campaign.

Matthew Colangelo, a former top-ranking official in the Biden administration’s Justice Department who left the DOJ to join the team prosecuting Trump, was also set to appear at the hearing with Bragg. No new date has been scheduled for the hearing as of now, but it is likely that the Manhattan district attorney’s testimony will not take place until after Trump’s sentencing.

A jury in May found Trump guilty of falsifying business records to influence the 2016 election by disguising reimbursements to Michael Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer who paid $130,000 to a porn star to keep quiet about an alleged affair with Trump. The former president has denied the affair.

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Republicans have accused Colangelo of having an “obsession” with targeting Trump for political purposes rather than having a sincere concern about crime. Friday’s hearing was set to examine “actions by state and local prosecutors to engage politically motivated prosecutions of federal officials.”

The Judiciary Committee will hold a separate hearing on Tuesday examining how the New York County District Attorney’s Office “weaponized the criminal justice system in pursuit of its perceived political enemy, Donald Trump.” Witnesses will include Capital University Law School professor Bradley Smith, former judge John Wilson, and Jonathan Fahey, a partner at Holtzman Vogel.