The Manhattan prosecutor who questioned porn star Stormy Daniels on Tuesday about her alleged sexual encounters with former President Donald Trump said she had a long history of funding Democrats, including President Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign. be.
Susan Hoffinger donated $250 to the Biden campaign in February 2020, and another $250 the following month, according to election commission documents.
Hoffinger, who was hired by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg in 2022, donated more than $900 to ActBlue during the 2020 campaign, in addition to a $500 donation to the Biden campaign.
ActBlue is a fundraising platform used by many Democratic politicians and liberal groups.
Hoffinger appears to have been donating exclusively to Democrats going back to 2004, according to his filing on the FEC program, with his first donation being to former Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry.
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During Hoffinger’s cross-examination, Daniels made several sordid claims about an alleged sexual relationship she had with Trump in 2006, including that she wrote in a magazine that the real estate mogul’s “butt” There was also a report that he had hit the police.
Trump’s lawyer, Todd Blanche, called Daniels’ testimony “biased” and asked Judge Juan Marchan to declare a mistrial.
Hoffinger argued that the claim was baseless, and Marchan rejected the defense’s request.
Other prosecutors involved in Mr. Bragg’s “hush money” case against Mr. Trump also turned out to have partisan backgrounds.
Matthew Colangelo, who joined Bragg’s office in 2022 as a senior adviser on the Trump case, once donated $400 to former President Barack Obama and received “political consulting” fees from the Democratic National Committee in 2018. FEC records show that he was paid $12,000 for this.
Colangelo was previously the Biden administration’s third-ranking official at the Justice Department.
Last week, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) requested records from Colangelo’s time at the Justice Department.
Last March, Mr. Bragg’s office indicted Mr. Trump on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to the alleged hush-money payments to Mr. Daniels.
Mr. Trump has maintained his innocence in the case.
