On Friday the Manhattan District Attorney’s office sent another letter to Trump’s minions in the House GOP just to remind them of the devastating news and to once again fuck off:
“Yesterday, the District Attorney of New York County filed charges against Donald Trump for violations of New York law. The charges filed yesterday were brought by citizens of New York, doing their civic duty as members of a grand jury, who found probable cause to accuse Mr Trump of having committed crimes in New York. Like any other defendant, Mr Trump is entitled to challenge these charges in court and avail himself of all processes and protections that New York State’s robust criminal procedure affords. What neither Mr Trump nor Congress may do is interfere with the ordinary course of proceedings in New York State. Your first letter made an unprecedented request to the District Attorney for confidential information about the status of the state grand jury investigation-now indictment of Mr Trump. Your second letter asserts that, by failing to provide it, the District Attorney somehow failed to dispute your baseless and inflammatory allegations that our investigation is politically motivated. That conclusion is misleading and meritless.”
“We did not engage in a point-by-point rebuttal of your letter because our Office is legally constrained in how it publicly discusses pending criminal proceedings, as prosecutorial offices are across the country and as you well know. That secrecy is critical to protecting the privacy of the target of any criminal investigation as well as the integrity of the independent grand jury’s proceedings The charges contained in the indictment are merely allegations, and the defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.”
“Your recent letter states that the purpose of your inquiry is to conduct ‘an examination of the facts’ relating to the investigation of Mr. Trump. But Congress has no warrant for interfering with individual criminal investigations – much less investigations conducted by a separate sovereign… The Committees’ attempted interference with an ongoing state criminal investigation – and now prosecution – is an unprecedented and illegitimate incursion on New York’s sovereign interests.”
“Moreover, your examination of the facts of a single criminal investigation, for the supposed purpose of determining whether any charges against Mr. Trump are warranted, is an improper and dangerous usurpation of the executive and judicial functions… Even worse, based on your reportedly close collaboration with Mr. Trump in attacking this Office and the grand jury process, it appears you are acting more like criminal defense counsel trying to gather evidence for a client than a legislative body seeking to achieve a legitimate legislative objective.”