Wife of ex-top Biden DOJ official now prosecuting Trump has donated thousands to Biden, Obama

The woman of an ex-Biden Department of Justice official, who is presently serving arsenic a apical authoritative with Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's bureau targeting erstwhile President Trump, donated thousands of dollars supporting President Biden’s 2020 campaign.

Anne Kimball Small, the woman of Matthew Colangelo and a erstwhile Obama White House official, donated $2,800 to Biden’s run successful 2020, according to FEC records reviewed by Fox News Digital. Small besides supported Obama’s palmy 2008 run and donated $500 to John Kerry’s failed 2004 statesmanlike campaign.

A 2013 property merchandise elaborate Small’s vocation inheritance during the Obama administration, including Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) wide counsel, Special Assistant to the President and Associate Counsel successful the White House Counsel’s Office. Her ineligible vocation was preceded by clerking for now-retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer and graduating from Harvard Law School. 

"Ms. Small antecedently worked astatine the SEC arsenic Deputy General Counsel for Litigation and Adjudication, helping to oversee enforcement matters, appellate cases, and adjudications," the property merchandise continued. "She becomes the archetypal pistillate to beryllium named General Counsel of the SEC."

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Prosecutor Matthew Colangelo speaks successful DOJ video (Left) and Former President Donald Trump (Right) exits Trump Tower successful New York City, Monday, April 15, 2024. (Fox News Digital/DOJ )

Small has been serving connected the committee of directors astatine the NAACP’s Legal Defense Fund, which has been vocal against erstwhile President Trump, since aboriginal 2020, according to an archived mentation of the left-wing group's website. In summation to Small, Jonathan Soros, the youngest of wide billionaire George Soros's 3 children from his archetypal marriage, has besides been serving connected the board.

The NAACP Legal Defense Fund earlier this twelvemonth filed an amicus little with the Supreme Court calling for the disqualification of Trump from moving for president, citing the 14th Amendment, according to a property release.

"The Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution, which was adopted during the Reconstruction play to safeguard our recently multi-racial ideology from forces who opposed the abolition of slavery and Black citizenship, prohibits authorities officials who prosecute successful insurrections against the United States from serving again arsenic officers of the United States nether Section 3 of that Amendment," the property merchandise said. "The Colorado Supreme Court determined that this proviso disqualifies erstwhile President Trump from appearing connected that state’s ballot due to the fact that helium engaged successful an insurrection successful transportation with the events of January 6, 2021."

While the radical said the amicus little wasn't filed connected behalf of immoderate governmental party, the group's president and Director-Counsel, Janai Nelson, fumed implicit the unanimous Supreme Court decision that favored Trump successful the Colorado ballot disqualification dispute.

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Former U.S. President Barack Obama confers with U.S. President Joe Biden during a ceremonial to unveil Obama's authoritative White House representation astatine the White House connected Sept. 7, 2022 successful Washington, DC.  (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

"By not lone ignoring the plain substance and intent of the Fourteenth Amendment but proscribing the nonstop mode successful which Congress would person to enactment successful bid to guarantee ‘oath breaking insurrectionists’ cannot clasp office, the Court efficaciously provided law immunity to insurrectionists, absent authorities from Congress," Nelson said. 

"This continues a disturbing and unsafe signifier of judicial overreach and activism," she continued. "At a clip of mounting threats to the regularisation of instrumentality and to the preservation of our multi-racial, multi-ethnic democracy, arsenic good arsenic a situation successful nationalist assurance successful our judiciary, it is captious that courts adhere to their relation successful deciding cases and controversies. Today the Court failed to bash so."  

Nelson has besides gone arsenic acold arsenic opposing Trump's First Amendment rights connected societal media, saying his "speech is rather powerfully against the public’s interest—especially the interests of our ideology and the circumstantial groups helium has targeted that person suffered convulsive onslaught and different assaults arsenic a result" aft it was reported that his Facebook and Instagram would beryllium reinstated past year. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said this determination was the "right call," which was rebuked by Nelson. 

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The FEC filings are the latest lawsuit of respective ties betwixt the Colangelo household and the Democratic Party. Fox News Digital reported earlier this week that the Democratic National Committee (DNC) paid Colangelo thousands of dollars for "political consulting" successful 2018. 

In summation to the payments, Colangelo besides donated hundreds of dollars to Obama's 2008 run and held respective roles successful the Obama administration, a Fox News Digital reappraisal found. 

"He has been a Distinguished Lecturer astatine the Georgetown University Law Center, and served successful the Obama medication arsenic a Deputy Assistant to President Obama and Deputy Director of the National Economic Council," an archived DOJ "staff profile" said. "Prior to that, helium served arsenic Chief of Staff to Department of Labor Secretary Tom Perez for 3 years, and arsenic Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights astatine the Department of Justice."

The DNC consulting payments were disbursed erstwhile Colangelo's erstwhile boss, Tom Perez, was the DNC chair.

White House visitant logs from the Obama medication besides amusement Colangelo's sanction dozens of times for assorted meetings with apical officials, including respective meetings with Biden's existent White House main of unit Jeff Zients, who was serving arsenic the manager of the National Economic Council betwixt 2014 and aboriginal 2017 erstwhile Colangelo was the lawman manager of the NEC.

Jeff Zients, White House Chief of Staff, attends an lawsuit wherever U.S. President Joe Biden announced Julie Su arsenic his nominee to beryllium the adjacent Secretary of Labor during an lawsuit successful the East Room of the White House March 1, 2023 successful Washington, DC. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Susan Hoffinger, different authoritative from Bragg’s bureau starring the questioning of big movie histrion Stormy Daniels successful Trump's transgression trial, besides donated to President Biden’s campaign successful 2020. The donations included a fig of different Democrat politicians and organizations implicit the years.

Hoffinger donated $500 to Biden’s statesmanlike run successful 2020: a donation of $250 successful February 2020 and different donation of $250 successful March 2020. She donated much than $900 to ActBlue during the 2020 cycle. ActBlue is an online fundraising level for Democrat candidates, progressive organizations and nonprofits.

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Rep. Lance Gooden, R-Texas sent a scathing letter to the DOJ and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg precocious past period demanding answers astir the "cesspool of partisanship" successful the DOJ, Fox News Digital reported past month.

"The Department of Justice nether President Biden has proven to beryllium a cesspool of partisanship, further evident by the hyper-politicized courts that person taken up President Trump’s transgression trials," Gooden's missive read. "DA Bragg’s determination to prosecute Mr. Colangelo, a erstwhile DOJ authoritative with adjacent ties to the White House and Attorney General Garland, is yet different illustration of the unconstitutional attack to President Trump’s trial."

Gooden asked to person a effect to his questions by May 24, 2024.

Fox News Digital reached retired to Small, Colangelo, and the Manhattan District Attorney's Office.

Fox News' Aubrie Spady and Brooke Singman contributed to this report.