President-elect Trump issued a gag order barring the judge from discussing court officials and prosecutors in a hush money case in New York, and set a sentencing date for January 10th, on Truth Social. I shared my frustrations.
“This illegal political attack is nothing but a dishonest show. “Acting” Judge Marchan, a radical partisan, has just issued a new order that violates the Constitution, knowing it is illegal, and if he is not allowed to continue in office, If allowed, it would spell the end of the presidency as we know it,” the president-elect wrote. be Friday Truth Social post.
“Mr. Marchan has so little respect for the Constitution that he has committed illegal acts against your president and me, your president-elect, to prevent me from exposing his and his family's disqualified and illegal conflict. We have a gag order in place,” he added.
Early Friday morning, New York Judge Juan Marchan rejected President Trump's request to dismiss the case in time for the next president's inauguration and ordered a January 10 sentencing date. He indicated he would not impose any penalties for the felony conviction. This fall, President Trump appealed a partial gag order related to the hush money case, which was denied and remains in effect.
In May, a New York jury found Trump guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records to conceal hush money his former fixer paid to porn actor Stormy Daniels to influence the 2016 presidential election. convicted of the crime.
After Friday's announcement of the ruling, President Trump's press secretary Stephen Chan said the lawsuit should be dismissed, citing a presidential immunity clause that Marchan said was inapplicable.
“Today's order by acting Judge Marchan, a deeply conflicted judge in the Manhattan witch hunt case, is a direct violation of the Supreme Court's immunity decision and other longstanding precedent,” Chan said.
On Friday, Trump also criticized Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and Justice Department Special Counsel Jack Smith, who is expected to resign before taking office.
“Mr. Marchan made the Bragg hoax, which according to all legal scholars should have been dead on arrival, appear 'alive' through his fraud and fraud,” Republicans wrote in a subsequent article. I wrote it. post.
“The deranged Jack Smith, who was packed and sent back to The Hague after losing all his politically trumped-up cases against me, fared far worse than Smith in his fight against my desperate political opponents. We cannot tolerate even more corrupt merchants.'' Please stop this farce. ”
Trump has the option of appearing virtually in court for sentencing ahead of Inauguration Day. The president-elect still has a chance to appeal the jury's guilty verdict.
