{"id":865292,"date":"2026-06-13T21:04:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T21:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/865292\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T21:04:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T21:04:13","slug":"trump-names-james-m-mcdonald-to-lead-powerful-new-york-federal-prosecutors-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/865292\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump names James M. McDonald to lead powerful New York federal prosecutor’s office"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 President Donald Trump announced his intent Saturday to nominate James M. McDonald as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York to replace Jay Clayton, who Trump nominated this week for the role of director of national intelligence<\/a>.<\/p>\n

McDonald, who is a former Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York, is currently a litigation partner at the Sullivan & Cromwell law firm and was a one-time personal attorney to Trump after he was brought on to handle the appeal of Trump’s Manhattan hush money conviction, which is still pending<\/p>\n

At the time, Trump was convicted of 34 felony counts for concealing a $130,000 payment<\/a> to porn star Stormy Daniels.<\/p>\n

If confirmed to the role as U.S. attorney in Manhattan, McDonald would oversee the most prestigious of the Justice Department\u2019s prosecution offices, with a vast portfolio ranging from terrorism and espionage cases to security fraud and public corruption.<\/p>\n

McDonald was part of the legal team that last month secured a favorable outcome for Indian billionaire Gautam Adani when the Trump administration Justice Department dropped a fraud and conspiracy case<\/a> that had been brought under the Biden administration.<\/p>\n

McDonald has also served as director of enforcement at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission during Trump’s first term in office and was also deputy associate counsel in the White House under George W. Bush.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am confident that Jamie will deliver strong results for our Country,\u201d Trump posted Saturday about McDonald’s nomination on the Truth Social platform.<\/p>\n

Nicholas Biase, spokesperson for the U.S. attorney\u2019s office in Manhattan, said it “welcomes the President\u2019s choice to lead the SDNY. Mr. McDonald is widely respected.\u201d<\/p>\n

Clayton’s nomination came as pressure increased from Congress to name a permanent replacement for Tulsi Gabbard, who announced her resignation as national intelligence director last month. Trump faced intense pushback<\/a> over his decision to name Bill Pulte, head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, as acting director.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 President Donald Trump announced his intent Saturday to nominate James M. McDonald as U.S. Attorney…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":865293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[57034,352683,69,51743,50,109663,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-865292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","category-us","tag-commodity-futures-trading-commission","tag-director-of-national-intelligence","tag-donald-trump","tag-jay-clayton","tag-news","tag-southern-district-of-new-york","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116744832009724303","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=865292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/865293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}