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A spokeswoman for the district attorneys office declined to comment, other than to say that the office was assessing the credibility of the claim.

Mr. Jordan also sent letters Wednesday to the two former leaders of the investigation, Carey R. Dunne and Mark F. Pomerantz, demanding documents and testimony relating to Mr. Braggs case. Mr. Dunne and Mr. Pomerantz both resigned from their positions in the district attorneys office in February 2022 after Mr. Bragg decided not to seek a separate indictment of Mr. Trump related to his business practices.

Mr. Dunne, Ms. Dubecks predecessor as general counsel, declined to comment, as did Mr. Pomerantz.

Stephen Gillers, a professor at New York Universitys law school and an expert in legal ethics, said that most of the material the congressmen were seeking was protected by either attorney client-privilege or another form of legal protection known as the attorney work product doctrine and called the demand an extraordinary overreach.

In their breadth, the letters represent an unprecedented demand for information about traditionally secret government activity, the enforcement of criminal law, he said.

Mr. Trump, for his own part, used racist language to describe the district attorney on Thursday, referring to Mr. Bragg, who is Black, as an animal in a post on his social media platform. Later in the day, he posted a link that included two juxtaposed images one of him wielding a bat and the other of Mr. Bragg with a hand raised suggestive of a physical attack on the district attorney.

The district attorneys prosecutors have been presenting evidence to a grand jury since January, and there have been a number of signals that they are likely to move for an indictment of Mr. Trump soon. First, they told Mr. Trumps lawyers that he could testify before the grand jury in his own defense, a right granted to people who are nearing indictment. (He declined.) They have also questioned nearly every witness involved in the hush-money payment to the porn star, Stormy Daniels, in front of the grand jury.

But an indictment is not expected until next week at the earliest. The grand jury hearing evidence about Mr. Trump does not meet on Fridays.

William K. Rashbaum and Karoun Demirjian contributed reporting.

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