by A day after a New York judge ruled that Donald Trump’s hush money trial could go ahead as planned on Monday, April 15, the Republican presidential candidate attacked both the justice and his daughter on Truth Social, accusing them of the political bias.
“Judge Juan Merchan, a very famous man, however, is a true and confirmed Trump Hater who suffers from a very severe case of Trump Alteration Syndrome,” Mr Trump wrote, after taking a hard look at his antagonist during his visit to the community. former Manhattan courtroom on Monday.
“In other words, he hates me! His daughter is a senior executive at a Super Liberal Democrat firm that works for Adam ‘Shifty’ Schiff, the Democratic National Committee, the Senate Majority PAC (Dem), and even Crooked Joe Biden.”
The defendant moved to accuse the judge of his former chief financial officer of the Trump organization, Allen Weisselberg, who was jailed by Judge Merchan in 2023 after he was found guilty of tax offenses.
“He was recently a judge in an unrelated trial of a long-term employee, elderly and not in good health. This judge treated him viciously, telling him you cooperate or I’m putting you in jail for 15 years.
“He pled, and went to jail for a very minor, very minor offense, served 4 months in Rikers, and now they’re after him again, this time for allegedly lying (not like lying to me!), and they are after. threatened him again for 15 years if he didn’t say something bad about ‘TRUMP.’
“He’s upset and scared! THERE IS NO CASE AGAINST THESE COUNTRIES, which destroy these scholastics & people. witch hunt!”
Not surprisingly, Judge Merchan quickly agreed to a request by Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg to impose a partial gag order on Mr. Trump to prevent him from speaking publicly about the case to witnesses, jurors, lawyers, staff protect the court and their families.
Mr. Trump has made a habit of attacking the judges who have presided over his numerous lawsuits, particularly Judge Arthur Engoron, who oversaw the 11-week civil fraud trial against the Trump Organization for inflating the value of its assets. which handed down a $464m judgment against the company last month.
He will appear before Judge Merchan in less than three weeks to begin a trial that sparked Mr. Bragg’s 34-count indictment a year ago, which accused the defendant of falsifying business records to “quick” payments money” that was made to hide the Public. porn star Stormy Daniels and ex-Playboy model Karen McDougal on his behalf in 2016 to ensure their silence about extramarital affairs he is said to have had with them years before.
Just before Mr. Trump was arraigned on April 4th of last year, he posted on Truth Social that Judge Merchan was a “BIASED JUDGE & WHOSE FAMILY ARE WELL KNOWN TRUMP HATERS”.
In the same message, he declared: “HER NIECE WORKED FOR ‘KAMALA’ & NOW THE BIDEN-HARRIS CAMPAIGN. KANGAROO COURT!!!”
To support this claim, Mr Trump’s two grown sons, Donald Trump Jr and Eric Trump, posted links on the same platform to articles on conservative websites Breitbart and Pundit Gate to attack Judge Merchan’s daughter, Loren Merchan, by pointing out that she worked as president and partner of Authentic Campaign during the 2020 election cycle, “a company that runs digital campaigns for Democratic candidates”, which your implied political bias.
Citing an archived LinkedIn page, the sites reported that Ms. Merchan “worked as ‘Director of Digital Persuasion’ for ‘Kamala Harris For The People’ from February 2019 to December 2019” and noted that The company’s website featured a testimonial from Mr. Schiff and listed the Biden-Harris campaign among its clients.
California governor Gavin Newsom, House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senator Cory Booker have reportedly worked with the progressive firm.
NBC News looked into the matter when the Trumps first raised it and concluded: “There is no evidence to suggest that Ms. Merchan did any subsequent work for Biden and there is no evidence to suggest that she ‘now works’ for the Biden political operation.”
Because of the rhetoric of Mr. Trump attacking the Buyers and Mr. Bragg they received “dozens” of threats against their safety in the 24 hours immediately after the former president, reported NBC.
Those threats forced court officials and a New York police detail assigned to the district attorney’s office to increase security to protect Judge Merchan and Mr. Bragg, and biographies of court employees and office staff were taken offline for their own protection. .
Attacking Judge Merchan and other judges enables Mr. Trump to promote the idea that he is being unfairly treated by a legal system he baselessly claims is “rigged.”
Now that the judge has silenced him with a fresh gag order, the defendant is likely to use it to suggest that he is being victimized and denied his basic rights, providing further respect for his fundraising email campaign and text appeals.
