曼哈顿地区检察官阿尔文·布拉格的律师周五敦促众议院共和党人谴责前总统唐纳德·特朗普美国攻击布拉格的办公室，说他们正在与他合作破坏他的犯罪调查。
布拉格的律师在给俄亥俄州众议员吉姆·乔丹(Jim Jordan)的信中说，“你和你的许多同事选择了与特朗普先生合作，诋毁和诋毁当选的州检察官和审判法官的诚信。”布莱恩·斯泰尔和詹姆斯·卡莫。这三人是调查检察官对特朗普调查的众议院委员会主席。
就在这封电子邮件发出几小时前，曼哈顿地区检察官办公室对川普提起刑事诉讼，指控他向成人电影女演员斯托米·丹尼尔斯行贿。
新闻发布后，这位前总统和一些共和党议员周四晚上迅速批评了这一指控，称这是出于政治动机，是特朗普作为候选人参加2024年大选前的政治迫害。
消息人士告诉美国广播公司新闻报道，特朗普周四晚上开始给国会盟友打电话，敦促他们在起诉消息传出后为他辩护。他们中的许多人做到了。
“众议院将让阿尔文·布拉格和他前所未有的滥用权力行为承担责任，”众议院议长凯文·麦卡锡周四晚上在一条推文中说。
麦卡锡表示，他与前总统保持定期沟通，他说布拉格“将我们神圣的司法系统武器化，以对抗唐纳德·特朗普总统。”
“你可以利用你办公室的地位来谴责这些攻击，并敦促尊重我们司法系统的公正性和公正的大陪审团的工作，”布拉格的律师周五告诉共和党主席。
这封电子邮件还恳求议员们放弃对布拉格办公室的调查。
莱斯利·杜贝克写道，“特朗普先生和国会都不会干涉纽约州的正常诉讼程序。”“你和你的许多同事选择与特朗普先生合作，诋毁和诋毁当选的州检察官的诚信，”杜贝克补充说。
由俄亥俄州众议员吉姆·乔丹(Jim Jordan)领导的众议院司法委员会(House Judiciary Committee)的共和党人于3月20日首次致信布拉格，就在特朗普利用其社交媒体平台将布拉格的办公室定性为“腐败”和有政治动机的两天后。
他们声称布拉格正在使用联邦资金进行他的调查，这将使国会有权调查曼哈顿的地方检察官办公室。布拉格否认了这一指控。
共和党主席要求提供与布拉格调查有关的证词和文件，以及当时他的办公室对特朗普的潜在起诉。
“你的行为将削弱人们对公正司法的信心，并不可改变地干涉2024年总统选举的进程，”乔丹和其他众议院共和党主席本月早些时候写信给布拉格。“我们希望你能就一个明显带有政治动机的起诉决定作证，”他们说。
两天后，乔丹扩大了对布拉格及其办公室的调查，要求他办公室的两名前特别检察官向众议院委员会提供证词。检察官已经从曼哈顿的DA办公室辞职，因为他们说布拉格拒绝起诉特朗普。
接下来的沟通是乔丹的委员会和曼哈顿检察官办公室之间的来回。
布拉格办公室的律师在一封信中告诉众议院调查人员，“你2023年3月20日的信……是对一项未决地方起诉的前所未有的(原文如此)调查”。“这封信寻求关于一项未决刑事调查的非公开信息，根据州法律，这些信息是保密的，”律师写道。
“我们重申了我们3月20日信件中的要求，并要求你们尽快全面遵守，但不迟于2023年3月31日，”两位主席在回复中写道。
没有迹象表明地方检察官办公室会在今天结束前遵从国会的要求，也没有迹象表明众议院共和党人会压制他们调查Bragg的努力。
众议院司法委员会的发言人没有立即回应美国广播公司的置评请求。
Manhattan DA's counsel says House GOP collaborating with Trump
The counsel for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on Friday urged House Republicans to denounce former President Donald Trump's attacks on Bragg's office, saying they are collaborating with him to undermine his criminal probe.
"You and many of your colleagues have chosen to collaborate with Mr. Trump's efforts to vilify and denigrate the integrity of elected state prosecutors and trial judges," the attorney for Bragg said in letter to Reps. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio., Bryan Steil, R-Wis., and James Comer, R-Ky. The three are chairmen of House committees probing the DA's investigation into Trump.
The emailed letter came mere hours after the Manhattan's DA office indicted Trump in a criminal proceeding involving his payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels.
Following the news, the former president and some Republican lawmakers quickly criticized the indictment Thursday night, branding it as politically motivated and a witch hunt ahead of the 2024 election in which Trump is a candidate.
Sources tell ABC News reports that Trump began calling congressional allies Thursday night, urging them to defend him following news of the indictment. Many of them did.
"The House of Representatives will hold Alvin Bragg and his unprecedented abuse of power to account," House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said in a tweet Thursday night.
McCarthy, who says he maintains regular communication with the former president, said Bragg has "weaponized our sacred system of justice against President Donald Trump."
"You could use the stature of your office to denounce these attacks and urge respect for the fairness of our justice system and for the work of the impartial grand jury," Bragg's attorney told the GOP chairmen Friday.
The emailed letter also implored the lawmakers to back down from their investigation into Bragg's office.
"What neither Mr. Trump nor Congress may do is interfere with the ordinary course of proceedings in New York State," Leslie Dubeck wrote. "You and many of your colleagues have chosen to collaborate with Mr. Trump's efforts to vilify and denigrate the integrity of elected state prosecutors," Dubeck added.
Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee, led by Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, first sent a letter to Bragg on March 20, just two days after Trump used his social media platform to brand Bragg's office as "corrupt" and politically motivated.
They allege that Bragg is using federal funds to conduct his investigation, which would give Congress the authority to probe the Manhattan's DA office. It is an allegation that Bragg denies.
The GOP chairmen demanded testimony and documents related to Bragg's investigation and what, at the time, was his office's potential indictment of Trump.
"Your actions will erode confidence in the evenhanded application of justice and unalterably interfere in the course of the 2024 presidential election," Jordan and other House GOP chairmen wrote to Bragg earlier this month. "We expect that you will testify about what plainly appears to be a politically motivated prosecutorial decision," they said.
Jordan then expanded his probe into Bragg and his office two days later, requesting that two former special prosecutors from his office provide testimony to the House committee. The prosecutors had resigned from the Manhattan's DA office over what they said was Bragg's refusal to prosecute Trump.
What followed that communication was a back-and-forth between Jordan's committee and the Manhattan DA's office.
"Your letter dated March 20, 2023 … is an unprecedent (sic) inquiry into a pending local prosecution," the counsel for Bragg's office told House investigators in a letter. "The Letter seeks non-public information about a pending criminal investigation, which is confidential under state law," the counsel wrote.
"We reiterate the requests in our March 20 letter and ask that you comply in full as soon as possible but no later than March 31, 2023," the chairmen wrote in response.
There is no indication that the DA's office will comply with Congress' requests by the end of the day, and there is no sign that House Republicans will tamp down on their effort to investigate Bragg.
A spokesperson for the House Judiciary Committee did not immediately respond to an ABC News request for comment.
