{"id":2259602,"date":"2024-06-04T14:34:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T18:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/garland-denies-involvement-in-top-deputys-move-to-manhattan-to-prosecute-trump\/"},"modified":"2024-06-04T14:36:23","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T18:36:23","slug":"garland-denies-involvement-in-top-deputys-move-to-manhattan-to-prosecute-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/garland-denies-involvement-in-top-deputys-move-to-manhattan-to-prosecute-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Garland Refutes Connection to Deputy&#8217;s Transfer for Trump Prosecution in Manhattan"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgarland-denies-involvement-in-top-deputys-move-to-manhattan-to-prosecute-trump%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2259602&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Attorney General Garland denied orchestrating his deputy Colangelo&#8217;s\u2063 move to prosecute Trump in the Manhattan hush-money case. \u200bThe\u2064 House Judiciary\u2062 Committee discussed \u200bColangelo&#8217;s career transition and \u2063allegations of a strategic move against Trump. Garland refuted claims of coordination and\u2064 emphasized Colangelo\u2019s independent career decisions. The debate highlighted concerns about political\u200b motives and legal tactics in \u2062the \u2064case.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Attorney General Merrick Garland denied involvement in one of his former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/increase-in-anti-semitic-incidents-strains-democrats-gop\/\" title=\"Increase in Anti-Semitic Incidents Strains Democrats, GOP\">top deputies<\/a> taking a key role in prosecuting former president Donald Trump in his Manhattan hush-money trial.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) questioned Garland on Tuesday during a hearing in the House Judiciary Committee on the trajectory of Matthew Colangelo\u2019s career. Colangelo served as the third<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/niger-coup-plotters-stonewall-us-to-russias-delight\/\" title=\"Niger coup plotters resist US, pleasing Russia.\">-highest-ranking official<\/a> in the Department of Justice before he joined Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg\u2019s office to take a lead role in prosecuting Trump.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gaetz accused Garland of \u201cdispatching\u201d Colangelo as part of a coordinated strategy to attack Trump, who is challenging President Joe Biden for the White House in 2024.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThat is false. I did not dispatch Matthew Colangelo,\u201d Garland responded.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gaetz pushed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-ag-barr-authorizes-federal-prosecutors-to-pursue-substantial-allegations-of-voting-irregularities-before-2020-election-is-certified\/\" title=\"BREAKING: AG Barr Authorizes Federal Prosecutors to Pursue \"Substantial Allegations\" of Voting Irregularities Before 2020 Election is Certified\">attorney general<\/a> on Colangelo\u2019s career, expressing skepticism that Colangelo\u2019s shift from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fncs-carlson-if-youre-looking-for-election-rigging-look-no-further-than-media-treatment-of-hunter-biden-saga\/\" title=\"FNC's Carlson: 'If You're Looking for Election Rigging, Look No Further' Than Media Treatment of Hunter Biden Saga\">senior official<\/a> at the Department of Justice to Bragg\u2019s team prosecuting Trump is coincidental.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cMatthew Colangelo became the assistant Attorney General at the very beginning of the Biden administration without having been Senate confirmed, goes and gets the senior role at the DOJ,\u201d Gaetz responds. \u201cColangelo makes this remarkable downstream career journey from the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., and then pops up in Alvin Bragg\u2019s office to go get Trump \u2013 and you\u2019re saying that\u2019s just a career choice that was made that has nothing to do with the lawfare coordinated by the DOJ?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI\u2019m saying it\u2019s false. I did not dispatch Mr. Colangelo anywhere,\u201d Garland repeated, adding after more pressure from Gaetz, \u201cI assume he applied for a job there and got the job. I tell you I had nothing to do with it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Gaetz: &#8220;You had no problem dispatching Matthew Collangelo&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Garland: &#8220;That is false.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gaetz: &#8220;He made this remarkable downstream career journey from the DOJ in Washington DC and then pops up in Alvin Bragg&#8217;s office to get Trump.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Garland: &#8220;I assume he applied for a job there\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VdI4aXi11x\">pic.twitter.com\/VdI4aXi11x<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/greg_price11\/status\/1798002830743064874?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 4, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Before joining Biden\u2019s DOJ, Colangelo <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/05\/06\/us-news\/trump-hush-money-prosecutor-matthew-colenagelo-was-political-consultant-for-dnc-ex-obama-donor\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">worked<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  for a stint in Democratic Party circles, earning $12,000 from the Democratic National Committee in January 2018 for \u201cpolitical consulting.\u201d Colangelo later joined the DOJ as one of Garland\u2019s top deputies before joining Bragg\u2019s office as the senior counsel in the criminal case against Trump.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1717600807642000&#038;usg=AOvVaw0p0QhZmpsXnlsBawMxYkBF\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A New York City jury convicted Trump on 34 felony charges last week over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-rejects-trump-bid-to-shield-financial-records\/\" title=\"Supreme Court Rejects Trump Bid To Shield Financial Records\">hush money payments<\/a> to porn actress Stormy Daniels in 2016. The former president has called the trial a politically-motivated setup and accused Biden of orchestrating a legal attack on his top competition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attorney General Merrick Garland distanced himself from his ex-top deputy&#8217;s decision to prosecute ex-President Trump in the Manhattan hush-money case. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) raised concerns about Matthew Colangelo&#8217;s career path during a House Judiciary Committee hearing. 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