House GOP post­pones Alvin Bragg tes­ti­mo­ny on Trump New York case

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 reim­bu …