A member of the Federal Election Commission testified to Congress that the Manhattan district attorney who led the prosecution of former President Donald Trump overstepped his authority.
“Bragg has effectively usurped the jurisdiction that this Congress has explicitly reserved for federal authorities,” Trainor said during a House Judiciary Committee hearing. “This overreach sets a troubling precedent for politicization of legal proceedings at the state level.”
Bragg gave the jury three options for what those unlawful means could have been. One of the options was that Trump violated the Federal Election Campaign Act. The other two options were additional falsifications of records or tax violations. Michael Cohen, Trump’s then-lawyer, used his personal money to issue the payment ahead of the 2016 election to silence Daniels about an alleged affair she had with Trump. Then, according to evidence in Bragg’s case, Trump built a reimbursement for Cohen into payments the Trump Organization made to Cohen in 2017.
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