On Tuesday morning, Representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL) announced that he will be filing a resolution to hold Trump-hating former Hillary Clinton lawyer and ex-New York prosecutor Mark Pomerantz in Contempt of Congress for hindering the investigation into corrupt Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s political prosecution of President Trump.
Pomerantz was one of the lawyers investigating President Trump under corrupt Soros-backed Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, though he left the investigation more than a year ago.
Pomerantz resigned from the Manhattan district attorney’s office, in protest, in February of last year due to Bragg’s initial hesitation in pursuing the case against President Trump.
He later wrote a book on the topic, titled People Vs. Donald Trump: An Inside Account, in which he claims the investigation “developed evidence convincing us that Donald Trump had committed serious crimes.”
In his book, Pomerantz detailed his argument for pursuing criminal charges against President Trump but then later refused to answer basic questions from Congress on the matter.
On Fox News, Rep. Gaetz spoke of how Pomerantz repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment when questioned under oath about his involvement in encouraging Bragg to bring criminal charges against President Trump.
He lobbied his way onto a prosecutorial team as a private lawyer. He did all he could to gaslight charges against Donald Trump. When the evidence didn’t support those charges, he initially got miffed and quit the team and wrote a book about it. Now, he has the nerve to assert his Fifth Amendment privilege over these matters when he has clearly explicitly and repeatedly waived that privilege. Contempt is proper where someone refuses to answer Congress’s questions under a frivolous assertion.
From Fox News:
EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., is introducing a resolution on Tuesday to hold lawyer Mark Pomerantz in contempt of Congress for his “frivolous” behavior before the GOP-run House subcommittee on government weaponization.
Pomerantz was one of the lawyers investigating former President Donald Trump under Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, though he left the investigation more than a year ago and wrote in his resignation letter,”The team that has been investigating Mr. Trump harbors no doubt about whether he committed crimes — he did.”
The House Judiciary Committee grilled him last month for roughly six hours amid their oversight probe into Bragg’s investigation – though Republicans fumed over his refusal to answer any substantive questions.
“He lobbied his way onto a prosecutorial team as a private lawyer. He did all he could to gaslight charges against Donald Trump. When the evidence didn’t support those charges, he initially got miffed and quit the team and wrote a book about it,” Gaetz told Fox News Digital. “Now, he has the nerve to assert his Fifth Amendment privilege over these matters when he has clearly explicitly and repeatedly waived that privilege. Contempt is proper where someone refuses to answer Congress’s questions under a frivolous assertion.”
Asked about whether House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is supportive of the contempt resolution, Gaetz appeared to reference that McCarthy agreed to a one-member motion-to-vacate threshold in order to win his gavel earlier this year.
“I think right now his principal goal is to remain Speaker,” Gaetz said. “Speaker McCarthy has been really strong on oversight matters to date, and I hope and expect it to continue.”
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Pomerantz called the GOP’s interest in the matter “an act of political theater” when he appeared before House lawmakers last month.
He reportedly invoked the Fifth Amendment in order to not violate any rules on confidential information. But the testimony came months after Pomerantz released a tell-all book about his time in Bragg’s office titled, “People Vs. Donald Trump: An Inside Account.”
According to the contempt resolution text obtained by Fox News Digital, Gaetz noted that Pomerantz pleaded the fifth for questions such as “Do you respect Alvin Bragg?”
Gaetz’s text also claims Pomerantz waived his right to the Fifth when he asserted to GOP Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., also a member of the committee, that the contents of his tell-all book were true.
“I’ve talked to a lot of my colleagues on the weaponization subcommittee, and I’ll allow them to speak for themselves, but many agree that the Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination were waived once Pomerantz defended the veracity of his book in response to questions from Congresswoman Stefanik,” Gaetz said. “I mean, Pomerantz pled the fifth when we asked him if he broke any laws while participating in the Trump investigation. We deserve an answer to that question.”
Rep. Gaetz’s press release:
Washington, D.C. — Today, U.S. Congressman Matt Gaetz (FL-01) introduced a resolution to hold Mark F. Pomerantz, a former Trump prosecutor, in contempt of Congress for failing to comply with a congressional subpoena. The resolution directs the Sergeant at Arms of the House of Representatives to summon him.
On February 7th, 2023, Pomerantz published a book about his experience joining the New York County District Attorney’s Office in February 2021 to work on the investigation of President Donald Trump. On April 6th, 2023, Pomerantz was subpoenaed by the House of Representatives Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. After frivolous legal challenges to the subpoena, he appeared under oath for a congressional deposition on May 12th, 2023, after a federal judge told him “no one is above the law.” However, during his appearance, he failed to comply with the subpoena by incorrectly asserting his Fifth Amendment right when asked questions about information he referenced in his book.
“Through his lack of testimony, Mark Pomerantz has undoubtedly undermined the legitimacy of this witch hunt indictment against President Donald Trump. Mr. Pomerantz pled the Fifth to nearly every question about his time in the Manhattan DA’s office, despite writing a tell-all book about his time there.
I believe Mr. Pomerantz engaged in misconduct in his targeting of President Trump, and his refusal to answer simple questions should not go unpunished. He should be held in contempt of Congress and be compelled to answer the questions regarding the weaponization of the Manhattan DA’s office. If he fails to comply with the congressional subpoena, then the Sergeant at Arms of the House of Representatives must summon him by force,” Congressman Gaetz said.
Full text of Rep. Gaetz’s resolution can be found HERE.
