Politicization of NYC “hush money” trial further revealed as ex-top Biden DOJ official now prosecuting Trump exposed as seasoned Democrat operative.
The Democratic National Committee paid Trump prosecutor Matthew Colangelo thousands of dollars for “political consulting” in 2018, Fox News reported.
Colangelo serves as a top prosecutor with Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s Office on the “hush money” case against former President Donald Trump and delivered opening statements in the unprecedented criminal trial.
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DNC Services Corp/Democratic National Committee paid Colangelo twice on Jan. 31, 2018 — two payments of $6,000, for a total of $12,000, according to Federal Election Commission records reviewed by Fox News.
The “description” for the payment’s purpose is labeled “Political Consulting.”
Colangelo joined Bragg’s office in December 2022 after prosecutors who were investigating Trump, Mark Pomerantz and Carey Dunne, resigned in protest of Bragg’s initial unwillingness to indict the former president.
Colangelo left a senior role at the Biden Justice Department to join Bragg’s team.
Bragg soon afterward brought charges against Trump in April 2023, raising questions among some in the GOP about alleged politicization of the case.
House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) last week sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland asking for clarification over the close coordination between Biden’s Justice Department (DOJ) and Bragg’s office in the NYC case, focusing on Bragg’s enlisting of Colangelo to help prosecute the case against Trump — who is currently leading Biden in the polls.
But Colangelo was making moves against Trump long before this case, having a hand in the lawsuit against the Trump Foundation in 2018 while working in the New York Attorney General’s office.
From Fox News:
Just months after Colangelo received the payments from the DNC, in June 2018, Underwood, with Colangelo as executive deputy attorney general, filed a lawsuit against the Trump Foundation. The lawsuit claimed that Trump used the foundation’s charitable assets to pay off his legal obligations. The Trump Foundation ultimately agreed to dissolve in December 2018.
Colangelo stayed in the New York Attorney General’s Office after Underwood’s tenure, and under the leadership of current Attorney General Letitia James, who took over in 2018, when he continued to work on Trump lawsuits and investigations.
But on the first day of the Biden administration in Jan. 20, 2021, Colangelo began serving as acting associate attorney general in the DOJ.
And before his work in the Biden DOJ and NY AG’s office, Colangelo worked different roles in the Obama administration, including in the DOJ’s civil rights division, deputy assistant to then-President Obama and as deputy director of the White House Economic Council, and chief of staff to then-Labor Secretary Tom Perez — who later became the DNC chair in 2017.
“Perez was DNC chairman at the time Colangelo was paid for ‘political consulting,’” Fox News reported.
It doesn’t get any more politicized than having a seasoned Democrat operative like Colangelo working on the prosecution of Joe Biden’s top political opposition in an election year.
Trump adviser Steve Bannon lambasted the GOP leadership on Monday for dragging their feet on launching an investigation into the Democrats’ blatant election interference operation.
“WHERE IS THE CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY INVESTIGATION? Colangelo was a paid political consultant to go after Trump with the NY AG during Trump’s term. Colangelo’s a hit man arguing the case today in NY and threatening Trump with a gag order,” Bannon argued on “War Room.”
🚨 BOMBSHELL: Colangelo began receiving payment from the DNC as a political consultant in 2018. (Fox Digital)
“WHERE IS THE CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY INVESTIGATION? Colangelo was a paid political consultant to go after Trump with the NY AG during Trump’s term. Colangelo’s a hit man… pic.twitter.com/PPCLXEHpOp
— Grace Chong 🇺🇸 (@gc22gc) May 6, 2024
Bragg charged Trump with 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree, but elevated the misdemeanor charges to felony charges, claiming the alleged falsifying of records was meant to facilitate “another crime” of promoting Trump’s election chances.
Trump has pleaded not guilty to all charges.
