Posted on 05/07/2024 10:33:55 AM PDT by knighthawk
When Donald Trump arrived in a Manhattan courtroom last month to stand trial in the first-ever criminal prosecution of a former U.S. president, he barely acknowledged the man who’s been trying to take him down for years.
Prosecutor Matthew Colangelo is Trump's polar opposite - a slim gray-haired man in a gray suit whose mild manner and steady tone belie the relentlessness with which he has pursued the flamboyant ex-president.
Even as Colangelo laid out his case against the Republican presidential hopeful, reading aloud the shocking details of the 'P****gate' scandal and various alleged schemes to buy the silence of women who say they had affairs with Trump, the wiry, bespectacled prosecutor displayed little emotion.
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Trying to follow this crap, today, and I’ve got to say...there is absolutely NO NEED to have these salacious details laid out for the world; they have NO RELATION to the charges of manipulating business expense reporting.
I think this damnable ‘judge’ is just another old pervert looking for late night reading material.
From the article:
In December 2022, Colangelo, the high-flying third most senior official in President Joe Biden’s Justice Department, astonished colleagues by packing his bags and leaving for the Big Apple to take a less senior role working for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
Colangelo’s ‘unusual’ move was technically a demotion, former U.S. Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Yoo told DailyMail.com.
‘Moving from [The Justice Department] to the Manhattan DA’s office must mean that someone is a true believer,’ said Yoo, who served in the George W. Bush administration and now teaches law at the University of California at Berkeley.
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