President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday accused the New York judge who oversaw his “hush money” trial of being “biased” and “radical partisan” for refusing to throw out the case.
President Trump, 78, criticized Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Marchan over his decision Monday to uphold the Republican's conviction despite the U.S. Supreme Court's presidential immunity ruling.
“Breaking news: In a completely illegal and psychotic order, the deeply inconsistent, corrupt, biased and incompetent acting judge Juan Melchan has completely disregarded the United States Supreme Court and its historic decision on immunity. ” President Trump wrote in his first article on Truth Social. Statement of Judgment.
“But even without immunity, this illegal incident is nothing more than a fraudulent fabrication. Mr. Marchan, a radical partisan, knowingly wrote unconstitutional opinions that were illegal, and if allowed to run, If he does, it will be the end of the Presidency as we know it,” Trump posted.
“Martian has so little respect for the Constitution that he has an illegal gag order against me, your president and the president-elect, so that I can’t expose him and his family’s disqualifying and illegal feud.” This is for the purpose of…”
Marchand has ruled that Trump's 34 convictions will not be overturned for now, given the Supreme Court's ruling that he enjoys “absolute” immunity for his actions while president. He rejected the president-elect's argument that the lawsuit should be dismissed.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg charges that President Trump falsified business records after paying former porn actress Stormy Daniels to keep quiet about an apparent sexual tryst before the 2016 election. He argued that the case, in which he was convicted, was not affected by the High Court's decision. The act occurred before the real estate mogul assumed the White House.
“The public's use of these acts as evidence of clearly personal acts of falsifying business records does not pose a risk of infringing on the powers and functions of the executive branch,” Marchand wrote in Monday's opinion. .
A judge last month dismissed a four-count federal indictment against Trump related to efforts to overturn the 2020 election, and special counsel Jack Smith backed away from an effort to restore the classified documents case against Trump.
That means the president-elect is still left with a 2020 Georgia election lawsuit and hush money conviction hanging over his head as Inauguration Day approaches.
President Trump's communications director, Stephen Chan, said Monday after Marchan's ruling, “Today's decision by Acting Judge Marchan, a deeply contradictory judge in the Manhattan DA's witch hunt, is a major departure from the Supreme Court's decision on immunity and other longstanding decisions.'' “This is a direct violation of judicial precedent.”
