Jordan Demands Docs About Trump’s Lead Prosecutor

NBC News reports:

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan is demanding documents from the New York attorney general related to the hiring of a lead prosecutor in Donald Trump’s hush money trial. Jordan, R-Ohio, accused Matthew Colangelo, who is a former high-ranking official in Attorney General Letitia James’ office, of assisting in what he called Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s “politicized prosecution” as Trump stands trial in New York.

In a letter sent Wednesday to James, Jordan said Colangelo has spent years fixated on prosecuting Trump since his time as chief counsel in the state attorney general’s office overseeing her lawsuits against the Trump administration, a lawsuit that led to the dissolution of the Trump Foundation and a civil fraud case that resulted in a $454 million judgment against Trump and his companies.

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