House Republicans blasted Attorney General Merrick Garland Tuesday in his first congressional hearing since Donald Trump’s criminal conviction in Manhattan, accusing the Department of Justice of engaging in “coordinated lawfare” against the former president.

“Mr. Attorney General, you’ve told us that it’s a dangerous conspiracy theory to allege that the Department of Justice is communicating with these state and local prosecutions against Trump,” far-right Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) said in reference to Garland’s opening remarks to the committee.

“You can clear it all up for us right now. Will the Department of Justice provide to the committee all documents, all correspondence between the department and [Manhattan DA] Alvin Bragg’s office, and [Fulton County, Ga. DA] Fani Willis’ office and [New York state AG] Letitia James’ office?” he asked.

Garland said his department would receive the request through the appropriate channels, but stressed that the DOJ did not “control” the “independent” prosecutors or their offices.

“These repeated attacks on the Justice Department are unprecedented and they are unfounded,” he declared. “We will continue to do our jobs free from political influence, and we will not back down from defending democracy.”

“The question is whether you communicate with them, not whether you control them,” Gaetz pressed. “You come in here and you lodge this attack that it’s a conspiracy theory that there’s coordinated lawfare against Trump.”

“And then when we say, ‘Fine, just give us the documents, give us the correspondence, and then if it’s a conspiracy theory, that will be evident,'” he went on. “But when you say, ‘Well, we’ll take your request and then we’ll sort of work it through the DOJ’s accommodation process,’ then you’re actually advancing the very dangerous conspiracy theory that you’re concerned about.”

Trump, 77, was convicted by a Manhattan jury May 30 on 34 counts of felony business fraud for concealing evidence of hush money payments made to a porn star before the 2016 election

Bragg revived the prosecution originally considered by his predecessor, Cy Vance, which became the first criminal case ever brought against a sitting or former US president.

Trump and Republicans have lashed out at the “corrupt” prosecution by Bragg, who previously investigated the Trump Foundation as chief deputy attorney general of New York — and touted that legal work during his 2021 run for the DA’s office.

The GOP has also ripped Manhattan Judge Juan Merchan for donating a small amount to President Biden’s 2020 campaign.

Asked by Gaetz whether he had taken any similar actions when serving as a judge, Garland answered, “No,” citing a federal rule barring him from doing so.

Judge Merchan’s daughter, Loren, also made an eye-popping $93 million repping Democratic clients at her progressive political consulting firm, Authentic Campaigns, since her father has presided over the case.

Matthew Colangelo, the former third-ranking official at Garland’s Justice Department and a onetime paid Democratic consultant, also left federal office in December 2022 to assist Bragg’s legal team.

“You are aware that Judge Merchan’s daughter was profiting off of this,” Gaetz snapped at Garland when he refused to comment on the Bragg prosecution. “You’re not going to comment, but you had no problem dispatching Matthew Colangelo.”

“That is false,” Garland shot back. “I did not dispatch Matthew Colangelo.”

Rep. Tom McClintock (R-Calif.) noted the Colangelo departure — and a White House visit by Willis before she indicted Trump on charges of election interference in Georgia.

“What are we to make of all this?” McClintock asked Garland. “Like Caesar’s wife, it’s important that your department be above reproach, and clearly it’s not.”

Garland also rebuffed requests from the GOP-led panel to hand over audio recordings of Biden’s interview with special counsel Robert Hur, saying he viewed the prospect of being held in contempt over the issue as “a serious matter” but would not be “intimidated.”