A House Republican from upstate New York is calling on her state’s Democratic governor, Kathy Hochul, to pardon Donald Trump after the former president was recently found guilty on all counts in a hush money trial.
Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY), a New York Bar Association member, made the request in a letter on Thursday that also urged Hochul to remove Alvin Bragg as Manhattan district attorney, saying he failed to uphold the “high ethical standards” of his role.
Bragg “used a warped version of events to push the manufactured charges” against Trump, a decision that was, “At best … legally questionable, at worst it’s criminal,” Tenney wrote in the letter, which has been posted to her congressional website.
