‘Not relevant’: Hush-money trial judge refuses to allow ‘improper’ Trump ‘fishing expedition’ into prosecutor who resigned from case and blasted DA

Mark Pomerantz, Donald Trump

Mark Pomerantz (left) during a February 2023 interview on Meet the Press (NBC News/screengrab), Donald Trump (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

The judge in Donald Trump’s New York hush-money trial refused to allow the former president to subpoena a prosecutor who resigned from the case two years ago, criticized the Manhattan DA for dragging his feet, and wrote a book about the investigation.

Acting New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan ruled Friday that Trump cannot broadly subpoena documents from the time that Mark Pomerantz was a special assistant district attorney in the investigation because that would amount to signing off on an “improper fishing expedition.” The ruling set the stage by identifying the issue: whether the documents Trump demanded is “material to the question of guilt or innocence,” or if those demands were “nothing more than a ‘fishing expedition.””

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