Rep. said. James Comer, R-Ky., whose two county attorneys from Tennessee and Kentucky asked him how they would “go after” Biden’s compliance with the indictment of Former President Trump.
Comer made the comments Wednesday on Fox & Friends.
“And I’ll tell you, one of the things I didn’t think it got much of was going to be a problem. And I had two calls yesterday, one from a county attorney in Kentucky and one from a county. attorney in Tennessee. They’re Republican, obviously, both states are heavily Republican. They want to know if there are ways they can go after Biden now,” Comer said.
He added that Democrats have “opened a can of worms.”
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FILE: House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., pauses for questions in the House Rules Committee as he advances a GOP effort to disapprove the District of Columbia Council’s action on a local law by voting rights and a criminal code revision, at the Capitol in Washington, Feb. 6, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
“They’ve set precedents now that we can’t go back to. And now we’re going to see a judicial system that’s getting bogged down in doing what they’re supposed to be doing, and that’s going after the real criminals, those people. committing real crimes, robberies, rapes, robberies, things like that. And now you start having ambitious political people like Alvin Bragg try to make a name for themselves and chase big pie-ins -the-sky federal cases . And it’s not the only good path we have to take in our judiciary,” Comer said.
Trump pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree on Tuesday.
The charge of falsifying records is generally considered a misdemeanor, but rises to a felony when a defendant’s “intent to defraud” includes an intent to commit another crime or to aid or conceal its commission.
At a press conference Tuesday afternoon, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg was asked why the second alleged hidden crime was not specified in the lawsuit.
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NEW YORK, NEW YORK – APRIL 04: Former US President Donald Trump sits at the defense table with his defense team in Manhattan court on April 4, 2023, in New York City. Trump made his first court appearance today following an indictment by a grand jury that heard evidence about money paid to adult film star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 presidential election. With the indictment, Trump became the first former US president in history to be criminally indicted. (Photo by Seth Wenig-Pool/Getty Images)
“Let me say as an initial matter that the indictment does not specify it because the law does not so require. In my remarks, I mention a couple of laws which I will highlight again now,” said Bragg. “The first is the New York state election law, which makes it a crime to conspire to promote a candidacy by unlawful means. I have indicated several other unlawful means, including additional false statement, including statements planned to be made to tax authorities . I also noted the federal election law’s limitation on contribution limits.”
Bragg also accuses Trump and his associates of using a “catch and kill” scheme to potentially bury potentially damaging information that came before the 2016 election.
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Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. (Fox News)
“Trump then went to great lengths to hide this behavior, causing dozens of false entries in business records. hide criminal activityincluding attempts to violate state and federal election laws,” Bragg alleged. “In all, 34 false entries were made in New York business records to hide the initial hidden $130,000 payment.”
Fox News’ Paul Best, Danielle Wallace and Emma Colton contributed to this report.
