Trump GOES OFF on Judge Merchan for ‘Psychotic’ Decision Not to Overturn Felony Conviction: ‘Corrupt, Biased, and Incompetent!’
Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Lee’s Family Forum, Thursday, Oct. 31, 2024, in Henderson, Nev. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
President-elect Donald Trump raged at Judge Juan M. Merchan’s decision to throw out his bid to overturn his conviction in his New York hush money case based on the Supreme Court’s presidential immunity ruling.
Trump wrote:
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! It is time to end the Lawfare once and for all, so we can come together as one Nation and, Make America Great Again.
In a seaparate post, Trump called the ruling “illegal” and “psychotic.”
He wrote:
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. 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
“The People’s use of these acts as evidence of the decidedly personal acts of falsifying business records poses no danger of intrusion on the authority and function of the executive branch,” Merchan wrote in his decision.
Merchan released his decision on Monday after Trump argued the Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity nullified his conviction on more than 30 felony counts stemming from hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels to cover up an alleged affair. Trump continues to deny the relationship with Daniels, as well as knowledge of the payments made.
If Merchan’s decision holds through appeal, it will make Trump the first felon to serve as president. The Supreme Court previously ruled presidents are generally immune from prosecution for official acts. Trump’s team argued that the hush money trial in New York had been tainted from testimony from White House employees. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has not commented on Merchan’s latest ruling.
“This Court concludes that if error occurred regarding the introduction of the challenged evidence, such error was harmless in light of the overwhelming evidence of guilt,” Merchan wrote in his 41-page decision. “Even if this Court did find that the disputed evidence constitutes official acts under the auspices of the Trump decision, which it does not, Defendant’s motion is still denied as introduction of the disputed evidence constitutes harmless error and no mode of proceedings error has taken place.”
