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Matthew Colangelo, an ex-Biden Justice Department official, delivered the prosecution’s opening statement on Monday in the Trump criminal trial.Bragg did not hire Colangelo for his white-collar prosecutorial experience, which was lacking at the time he joined Bragg’s office.
Before his most recent stint at the DOJ, Colangelo had worked for Attorney General Letitia James, who investigated Trump for three years before bringing a massive civil lawsuit against Trump and the Trump Organization in the fall of 2022. During his time in James’s office, Colangelo was involved in Trump’s civil case and also led federal initiatives, which involved, at the time, filing lawsuits against the Trump administration, as well as investigating the Trump Foundation.
“This is a witch hunt and it’s a shame and it comes out of Washington,” former President Donald Trumpreporters on Monday. “It’s in coordination with Washington, everything, including the DA’s office, it’s in coordination with Washington.” “I just want people to understand that this is done for purposes of hurting the opponent of the worst president in the history of our country,” he added.Colangelo’s history in the Democrat party runs deep. He worked in the Obama administration as a senior Labor Department official and found his way into Biden’s DOJ, appointed as acting associate attorney general when Biden took office.
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