Donald Trump launched a scathing, fact-based attack on a New York judge who refused to overturn his conviction in a hush-money case that made him the first current and former U.S. president to be a convicted felon. It started.
The president-elect called Juan Melchan “mentally insane” on his Truth Social platform after rejecting President Trump’s plea that his conviction for covering up a sex scandal should be thrown out based on a Supreme Court ruling. denounced it as “corrupt.” It gave him widespread immunity.
“In a completely illegal and psychotic order, the deeply inconsistent, corrupt, biased, and incompetent acting judge Juan Machan showed complete disregard for the United States Supreme Court and its historic decision on immunity.” President Trump wrote upon returning to the White House. January 20th.
In a blistering broadside, he accused Mr. Marchan, an experienced judge who has heard multiple complex cases in his 17 years on the court, as a “radical partisan” who “knowingly violated our Constitution in a way that is illegal.” “I wrote a contrary opinion,” he said. If he is allowed to stand, it will be the end of the presidency as we know it. ”
In a 41-page decision handed down Monday, Marchan rejected Trump’s request to overturn his conviction last May by a jury in a Manhattan courtroom.
He wrote that Trump’s “obviously personal act of falsifying business records poses no risk of infringing on the powers and functions of the executive branch.”
His decision comes shortly after the Supreme Court ruled last July that presidents, including Trump, have broad immunity from prosecution for their actions during the presidential election process, asking him to vacate the convictions. It was a blow to the legal strategy of Mr. Trump’s lawyers. Fulfill your duty even if it means breaking the law.
President Trump’s 34 convictions for falsifying business records stem from allegations that adult film star Stormy Daniels had sexual contact with her before the 2016 presidential election, which Trump denies. It is related to payments made to her to buy her silence about the incident.
Although the crimes occurred before Trump became president, his lawyers cited a Supreme Court opinion and said some inadequate evidence was presented at trial, including presidential financial disclosure forms and testimony from White House aides. claimed to have been done.
However, in his ruling, Marchand appeared to accept the prosecution’s argument that evidence from the Trump era was only a “small part” of the case. He said the falsely submitted testimony was “harmless in light of the overwhelming incriminating evidence.”
This is not the first time President Trump has accused Marchan of being a “certified Trump hater.”
During the trial last May, President Trump and his supporters argued that Marchand had been removed from the lawsuit over $35 donations he made to Democrats in 2020, including $15 to the Joe Biden campaign. The request was made to withdraw, but to no avail.
In addition, his daughter Lauren Marchand has been involved in digital advertising and fundraising for Democratic clients, including Mr. Biden and recently elected Sen. Adam Schiff, a member of the House of Representatives whom Mr. Trump has branded the “enemy within.” He also pointed out that he was the president of a company working on during his election campaign.
Marchand issued 10 gag orders against Trump during the trial, which the president-elect mentioned in a post on Tuesday. “Mr. Marchan has so little respect for the Constitution that he has an illegal gag order against me, your president and the president-elect, because I expose him and his family’s disqualified and illegal feud.” “So that you can’t do it,” he wrote.
