New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan presides over Braggโs get-Trump case today. He might not be impartial. We know he presided over the petty tax fraud case with former CFO Allen Weisselberg. Merchan put the 75-year-old in Rikers with hardened criminals.
Judge Merchan, a lifelong Democrat, has previously tangled with Trump, and Donald Trump frequently criticizes Judge Merchan. If Democrats wanted to avoid the impression of influencing the election, they could have gotten a judge who doesn’t have prior entanglements.
Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social: โJuan Manuel Merchan was hand-picked by Bragg & the Prosecutors, & is the same person who โrailroadedโ my 75-year-old former CFO, Allen Weisselberg.โ
The MSM says Merchan is fair, but he did put an elderly man in the worst prison in New York City for a petty crime that the Democrat DA elevated.
Merchan also presided over Steve Bannon’s fraud case.
Trump’s Lawyers say he’s not biased:
Speaking on Sunday to ABCโs โThis Week,โ Trumpโs attorney, Joe Tacopina, saidย that his client is โentitled to his own optionโ and has been the โvictim of political persecution.โ
โAnd what heโs been through, quite frankly, I donโt blame him for feeling the way he feels โฆ Do I think the judge is biased? Of course not. How could I subscribe to that when Iโve had no interactions with this judge that would lead me to believe heโs biased,โย Tacopina added.
JUDGE MERCHAN’S DAUGHTER
His daughterโsย LinkedInย account reveals sheย is a Democrat who worked with the election campaigns of President Joe Biden and VP Kamala Harris.
While working with the Kamala Harris campaign, Loren also served as the Vice President of Authentic Campaigns.
According to itsย website, Authentic Campaigns is a digital agency that raisesย โhundreds of millions of dollars for progressive campaignsโ through digital persuasion programs.
Authentic Campaigns was also heavily involved with Harrisโs campaign, and the company served as the vice presidentโs leading digital vendor.
Loren currently serves as the President of Authentic Campaigns.
Authenticย harshly criticized Trump also. At least oneย article on its site accuses Trump of โscamming people online.โ Pro-Harris and Biden are what they are all about.
A BAD DAY FOR AMERICA, A BANANA REPUBLIC
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., said he thinks Trumpโs arraignment is a โbad day for all of usโ in a video posted to Twitter.
โToday, American politics crosses a line that itโs never going to come back from,โ he said, adding that he finds charges, which have not been made public, โridiculous.โ
โAfter today, every prosecutor in America that wants to make a name for themselves now is going to have permission to basically go after someone in the other party,โ he added.
Today is a bad day for all of us & we are all going to regret it for a very long time pic.twitter.com/Nc2oMpeFz0
โ Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) April 4, 2023
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