Top Prosecutor, Judge In Trump's Hush Money Case Donated To Biden's 2020 Campaign - 'This Is What A Threat To Democracy Looks Like'

On Tuesday, a new report from Fox News revealed that a top prosecutor in the hush money case brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D) against presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump donated to President Joe Biden's 2020 presidential campaign.

According to FEC records, district attorney's office prosecutor Susan Hoffinger donated two payments of $250 to the Biden campaign during the Democratic primaries in early 2020. She also donated hundreds of dollars to other Democrat candidates via ActBlue, the primary Democratic fundraising service. Hoffinger has clearly been a lifelong Democrat, with some of her donations going as far back as John Kerry's failed presidential run against President George W. Bush in 2004.

Like Hoffinger, the judge in the case, Judge Juan Merchan, has also donated to the Biden campaign in the past. FEC records show that Merchan donated $15 to the Biden campaign, $10 to the Progressive Turnout Project, and $10 to Stop Republicans, per Fox News. Despite actively donating against the defendant, Donald Trump, in the past, Merchan refused to recuse himself from the case.

"Joe Biden's witch hunt against President Donald Trump happening in New York City is blatant election interference," Rep. Elise Stefanik told Fox. "The lead Democrat prosecutor is a donor to Joe Biden, just like the judge. Democrats know they cannot defeat President Trump at the ballot box and have resorted to a desperate lawfare campaign in hopes of saving Joe Biden. The American people can see through this, and that is why President Trump will win come November."

Making matters even worse for the court's perceived neutrality, another prosecutor on the team, Matthew Colangelo was previously paid by the Democratic National Committee for "political consulting" and moved from the Biden Department of Justice to Bragg's office in anticipation of the Trump case.

The sheer number of anti-Trump actors in the hush money case against Trump led Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) to point out the blatant bias taking place in the Manhattan courtroom. "A Biden DOJ attorney (and DNC consultant) joins a Soros-funded prosecutor's office. That office prosecutes Donald Trump for what the NY Times has called a 'paperwork' problem. The presiding judge is a Biden campaign donor. This is what a 'threat to democracy' looks like."

Trump is currently facing 34 counts of falsifying business records after his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, paid $130,000 to Stormy Daniels following an alleged 2006 affair. Trump then reimbursed Cohen for the payment, and it was allegedly marked down in business records as a legal expense. However, Alvin Bragg argues that the hush money payment was used to protect Trump's 2016 campaign and thus violates campaign finance law.

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