Manhattan DA’s Office Responds to House Republicans’ Request for Testimony in Trump-Stormy Daniels Hush Money Case Investigation

The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office has responded to a recent demand from House Republicans for sworn testimony on their investigation into former President Donald Trump in the Stormy Daniels hush money case. The demand came after Trump announced he expected to be arrested on Tuesday.

In a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan, Leslie B. Dubeck, the Manhattan DA’s general counsel, called the Republicans’ request an “unprecedented inquiry into a pending local prosecution.” Dubeck also noted that the letter only came after Trump created a false expectation that he would be arrested the next day and his lawyers reportedly urged the DA to intervene.

The response from the Manhattan DA’s Office comes just days after Jordan and other GOP House committee leaders were rebuffed by the DA’s office for information about the investigation, which the Republicans called an “unprecedented abuse of prosecutorial authority.”

In response to the letter, former White House counsel John O’Donnell said, “Alvin Bragg’s reply letter to Jim Jordan is the single most humiliating letter ever received by a chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, every one of whom has known much more about the law than Jim Jordan.” O’Donnell had earlier called Jordan a “buffoon” for writing to the DA.

The Manhattan DA’s Office has not yet commented on the investigation into Trump in the Stormy Daniels case. It is unclear when the investigation will be concluded or if any charges will be brought against the former president.