House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) on April 7 expanded his probe into the indictment of former President Donald Trump, asking for documents and testimony from a leading prosecutor in the Manhattan district attorney’s (DA) criminal case against Trump.
Specifically, Jordan addressed a letter (pdf) to Matthew Colangelo, a senior counsel at the DA’s office and former Department of Justice (DOJ) attorney. The letter comes as part of the House GOP’s probe into the office of Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg, who is leading the case against Trump in New York.
On April 4, Trump appeared at the New York Supreme Court, where Bragg’s office charged him with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to a hush money payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels in the weeks before the 2016 presidential election. Daniels claims she had an affair with Trump in 2006, which Trump denies….