REVEALED: New PROOF the anti-Trump prosecutor in hush money trial is a 'true ... trends now

When Donald Trump arrived in a Manhattan courtroom last month to stand trial in the first-ever criminal prosecution of a former U.S. president, he barely acknowledged the man who’s been trying to take him down for years.

Prosecutor Matthew Colangelo is Trump's polar opposite - a slim gray-haired man in a gray suit whose mild manner and steady tone belie the relentlessness with which he has pursued the flamboyant ex-president.

Even as Colangelo laid out his case against the Republican presidential hopeful, reading aloud the shocking details of the 'P****gate' scandal and various alleged schemes to buy the silence of women who say they had affairs with Trump, the wiry, bespectacled prosecutor displayed little emotion.

But Colangelo’s critics say that moment marked a major milestone in his apparent personal crusade to destroy a political enemy.

In December 2022, Colangelo, the high-flying third most senior official in President Joe Biden's Justice Department, astonished colleagues by packing his bags and leaving for the Big Apple to take a less senior role working for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

Colangelo's 'unusual' move was technically a demotion, former U.S. Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Yoo told DailyMail.com.

'Moving from [The Justice Department] to the Manhattan DA’s office must mean that someone is a true believer,' said Yoo, who served in the George W. Bush administration and now teaches law at the University of California at Berkeley.

‘It suggests that the prosecutor here is after the man, Trump, and not the crime,’ said Yoo.

After all, justice is supposed to be blind. And indeed, Colangelo’s career step-down has raised concern.

'Joe Biden's former #3 official at the Department of Justice left DC to help go after President Trump in New York,' wrote Republican Senator Tom Cotton on social media in April as the case began. 

'All the Democrat-led prosecutions of Trump are as concocted as they are political.’

Stranger still is the case that seems to have compelled Colangelo to make such a conspicuous move.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and his office are accusing Trump of committing 34 felonies by allegedly falsifying business records to hide a $130,000 hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels and, thus, corrupt the 2016 presidential election.

But what is unclear to many legal experts is if that allegation even constitutes a crime.

Boston University law professor Jed Handelsman Shugerman called the prosecution an ‘embarrassment’ for prosecutorial ethics and ‘a historic mistake’ in an opinion article for the New York Times last month. 

He even accused Colangelo of evading ‘specifics about what was actually illegal,’ and gave voice to what many Trump defenders now believe: That the Republican frontrunner is being targeted for prosecution by Democratic political operatives.

Now, as the trial picks up steam and threatens to imperil Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign, DailyMail.com reveals new insights into the prosecutor whose career has never strayed far from the beating heart of the Democratic establishment’s anti-Trump legal resistance. 

Colangelo, 49, has long maintained a virtually non-existent public profile while quietly rising to great heights in government.

He graduated from Harvard Law and then clerked for Judge Sonia Sotomayor on the U.S. Court of Appeals years before she became a justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Colangelo then went to work for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) as its director of 'economic justice.’

After that he hopped from the Obama Administration

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