The Manhattan prosecutor who questioned porn star Stormy Daniels Tuesday about her alleged sexual encounter with former President Donald Trump has a long history of giving money to Democrats, including to President Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign.
Susan Hoffinger gave the Biden campaign $250 in February 2020 and made a subsequent $250 contribution the following month, according to Election Commission documents.
Along with her $500 donation to the Biden campaign, Hoffinger, who was hired by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg in 2022, also contributed more than $900 to ActBlue during the 2020 election cycle.
ActBlue is the fundraising platform used by numerous Democratic politicians and liberal organizations.
Hoffinger appears to have donated exclusively to Democrats going back to 2004, filings with the FEC show, with her first contributions going to former Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry.
Fox News first reported on Hoffinger’s political donations.
During Hoffinger’s line of questioning, Daniels made several salacious claims about her alleged 2006 sexual encounter with Trump, among them that she spanked the real estate mogul with a magazine “right on the butt.”
Trump defense attorney Todd Blanche decried Daniels’ testimony as “prejudicial,” and asked Judge Juan Merchan to declare a mistrial.
Hoffinger argued that the claim was without basis, and Merchan denied the defense’s request.
Other prosecutors involved in Bragg’s “hush money” case against Trump have also been found to have partisan backgrounds.
Matthew Colangelo, who joined Bragg’s office in 2022 as senior counsel in the Trump case, once donated $400 to former President Barack Obama and was paid $12,000 in “political consulting” fees by the Democratic National Committee in 2018, FEC records show.
Colangelo was previously the third-ranking official in Biden’s Justice Department.
Last week, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) demanded records from Colangelo’s time at the Justice Department.
Bragg’s office charged Trump last March with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to alleged hush money payments made to Daniels.
Trump has pleaded not guilty in the case.
