LaffyMay 12, 2023

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For ref: "Former #Trump prosecutor declined to provide details on hush-money investigation" https://apnews.com/article/trump-bragg-jordan-pomerantz-house-investigation-50ffeb205c50dab473153d8de1db3e7f

Via @emptywheel:

#Pomerantz uses #Bragg's past threats of prosecution for violating GJ secrecy to invoke 5A.

Jordain Carney:

Pomerantz’s opening statement in Judiciary deposition:

“I will not be answering questions that relate to my work in the DA’s office, my book or public statements I have made in the past”

#legal

GOP lawmaker: Former Trump prosecutor declined to provide details on hush-money investigation

WASHINGTON (AP) — An ex-prosecutor who once oversaw Manhattan's yearslong investigation of former President Donald Trump repeatedly declined to substantively answer questions at a closed-door deposition Friday of the House Judiciary Committee, according to a Republican lawmaker in the meeting.

Associated Press
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2/ Via Kyle Cheney:

This will be an interesting test case. The House held four #Jan6 committee witnesses in contempt (Bannon, Meadows, Scavino, Navarro). But none of them actually showed up at all.

Several witnesses who pleaded the Fifth (Stone, Clark, Eastman, etc.) were not held in contempt.

It's a test case for whether House GOP will go further than the Jan. 6 committee did in pursuing contempt of Congress.

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3/ Here's the article from @KlasfeldReports :

"The former top deputy of the Manhattan district attorney prosecuting #Trump invoked his 5th Amendment rights at his deposition before the Republican-controlled House Judiciary Committee.

Scorching the committee’s chairman Rep. #JimJordan, ex-Assistant District Attorney Mark Pomerantz flatly declared in his opening remarks: “This deposition is for show,” later labeling it “political theater” and “cynical histrionics.”

https://lawandcrime.com/trump/this-deposition-is-for-show-manhattan-das-ex-deputy-scorches-jim-jordans-cynical-histrionics-in-trump-probe-pleads-fifth/

'This deposition is for show': Manhattan DA's ex-deputy scorches Jim Jordan's 'cynical histrionics' in Trump probe, pleads Fifth

Scorching the committee, Mark Pomerantz declared in his opening remarks: "This deposition is for show," slamming Rep. Jim Jordan's "cynical histrionics."

Law & Crime
May 12, 2023 at 9:26pmWeb
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@GottaLaff @KlasfeldReports This is great stuff:

“I do not believe for a moment that I am here to assist a genuine effort to enact legislation or conduct legislative ‘oversight,'” Pomerantz said in a three-page statement.

“We are gathered here because Donald Trump’s supporters would like to use these proceedings to attempt to obstruct and undermine the criminal case pending against him, and to harass, intimidate, and discredit anyone who investigates or charges him.”

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@statmonkey Yeah, he stuck it to them.