Amid Donald Trump‘s criminal trial, Fox News host Maria Bartiromo confronted Representative Jim Jordan, an Ohio Republican and House Judiciary Committee chairman, on Sunday about the hush money case and for conducting “congressional investigations that go nowhere,” adding that people are “sick” of it.
Trump, the presumptive 2024 Republican presidential nominee, became the first former president in U.S. history to stand trial in a criminal case earlier this month. Following an investigation by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office, Trump was indicted in March 2023 on charges of falsifying business records relating to hush money paid to adult-film star Stormy Daniels during his 2016 presidential campaign. Daniels alleges that she had an affair with Trump in 2006, which he has denied. Trump has pleaded not guilty to all charges and said the case against him is politically motivated.
During Sunday Morning Futures on Fox News, while speaking with Jordan, Bartiromo discussed Trump’s criminal hush money trial and the Judiciary Committee’s latest report that alleges the Manhattan district attorney’s hush money investigation into Trump is “political prosecution.”
On Thursday, the committee released a 300-page report titled, “An Anatomy of a Political Prosecution: The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office Vendetta Against President Donald J. Trump.”
Led by Jordan, who has been looking into the Trump investigation since the former president was indicted last year, the report states that Congress “has a specific and manifestly important interest in preventing politically-motivated prosecutions of current and former presidents by elected state and local prosecutors, particularly in jurisdictions—like New York County—where the prosecutor is popularly elected and trial-level judges lack life tenure.”
“At this point, American citizens are asking, ‘What can you do about it?’ With all due respect, people are sick and tired of congressional investigations that go nowhere,” she said, seemingly pointing towards the impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.
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