Trump Drops Hammer on ‘Corrupt’ Judge Merchan Over ‘Deeply Conflicted’ Hush Money Ruling: ‘Completely Illegal, Psychotic’
President Donald Trump has just dropped the hammer on Juan Merchan to remind the “corrupt” New York judge that he’s made a very powerful enemy by ruling against him in the so-called “hush money” case.
Trump has delivered an explosive response to Merchan’s “deeply conflicted” ruling in the “Rigged Hoax” case.
Merchan, a Biden donor with deep ties to the Democrats, ruled Tuesday to keep Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s anti-Trump case going.
On Monday, Merchan rejected Trump’s request to throw out his conviction based on the Supreme Court’s ruling giving ex-presidents immunity from criminal prosecution based on any of their “official acts” in office.
Throughout the show trial, prosecutors produced “evidence” that would have fallen under the protection of Trump’s immunity.
However, despite Bragg’s failure to provide any evidence connecting Trump to the alleged crimes, the deep-blue New York City jury returned guilty verdicts to 34 felony counts.
The verdict came after Merchan inexplicably told the jury their verdict did not have to be unanimous.
Merchan, who was presiding over Bragg’s politically motivated case, refused to recuse himself early in the trial due to clear conflicts of interest.
The judge’s daughter runs a company advising the campaigns of anti-Trump Democrat candidates, including Senator-elect Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Kamala Harris, among others.
Loren Merchan was profiting from her father’s rulings against Trump in a courtroom.
On Monday, Judge Merchan ruled that the trial’s verdict must stand and the strict “gag order” against the incoming president must remain in place.
Trump responded to Merchan’s refusal to dismiss the case with a firey message.
“In a completely illegal, psychotic order, the deeply conflicted, corrupt, biased, and incompetent Acting Justice Juan Merchan has completely disrespected the United States Supreme Court, and its Historic Decision on Immunity,” Trump wrote in a statement.
“But even without Immunity, this illegitimate case is nothing but a Rigged Hoax.
“Merchan, who is a radical partisan, wrote an opinion that is knowingly unlawful, goes against our Constitution, and, if allowed to stand, would be the end of the Presidency as we know it.
“Merchan has so little respect for the Constitution that he is keeping in place an illegal gag order on me, your President and President-Elect, just so I cannot expose his and his family’s disqualifying and illegal conflicts….”
Trump continued:
“….I am the only Political Opponent in American History not allowed to defend myself – A despicable First Amendment Violation! Merchan took the Manhattan D.A.’s Witch Hunt, that, according to all Legal Scholars, including Jonathan Turley, Elie Honig, Andy McCarthy, Alan Dershowitz, Gregg Jarrett, David Rivkin, Elizabeth Price Foley, Katie and Andy Cherkasky, Paul Ingrassia, and many others, is a nonexistent case, barred by the Statute of Limitations, and should have never been brought and, through his fraud and misconduct, gave it a semblance of ‘life.’
“While Deranged Jack Smith was sent packing back to The Hague after losing all of his politically manufactured cases against me, Merchan, who is far worse and even more corrupt than Smith in his fight for my hopeless political opponents, just cannot let go of this charade.
“Is it because of his conflicts and relations that he keeps breaking the Law?
“This has to stop!” Trump warned.
“It is time to end the Lawfare once and for all, so we can come together as one Nation and, Make America Great Again.”
Citing lame-duck President Joe Biden’s recent complaints about unfair prosecutions, Trump’s lawyers had insisted Merchan dismiss the case entirely.
Trump’s lawyers had told Merchan:
“President Donald J. Trump respectfully submits this motion to dismiss the Indictment and vacate the jury’s verdicts…
“The Presidential immunity doctrine, the Presidential Transition Act, and the Supremacy Clause all require that result, and they require it immediately.”
They noted Biden’s claim that his son Hunter Biden was prosecuted “unfairly” for his crimes.
Hunter Biden’s crimes included gun charges on which he was convicted and tax violations to which he pleaded guilty.
Trump’s lawyers noted:
“Yesterday, in issuing a 10-year pardon to Hunter Biden that covers any and all crimes whether charged or uncharged, President Biden asserted that his son was ‘selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted,’ and ‘treated differently.’
“President Biden argued that ‘raw politics has infected this process and it led to a miscarriage of justice.’”
In reality, they charged, it was this “same DOJ that coordinated and oversaw the politically-motivated, election-interference witch hunts targeting President Trump by disgraced Special Counsel Jack Smith, the other biased prosecutors in Smith’s Special Counsel’s Office (SCO), and others.
“This is the same DOJ that sent Matthew Colangelo to DA Bragg to help unfairly target President Trump in this empty and lawless case.
“Since DA Bragg took office, he has engaged in ‘precisely the type of political theater’ that President Biden condemned.”
Trump also references legal scholar Jonathan Turley in his response.
Turley, a George Washington University law professor, shared some insight on the ruling on X Monday evening.
Turley points out that there still remains outstanding not only the ruling on the motion to set aside the verdict in light of Trump’s reelection but also the substantive ruling on the challenge to the verdict based on errors made at trial.
As Turley notes, the trial itself was “replete with layers of reversible error.”
“However, the likelihood of Merchan reversing himself on any of them sits somewhere between slim and none,” Turley laments.
“Nor can we expect, given his ruling on the immunity issue, that Merchan will determine that Trump’s reelection warrants the dismissal of the matter.”
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