President Trump said Saturday he will appoint James M. McDonald, one of his personal lawyers, as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, the federal prosecutor’s office that covers Manhattan and one of the Justice Department’s most prominent posts. McDonald, a partner at Sullivan & Cromwell, is on Trump’s legal team handling his pending appeal of felony convictions in New York related to hush money payments to Stormy Daniels during the 2016 presidential campaign. McDonald would r...

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