President-elect Trump on Saturday slammed the Manhattan judge who oversaw his criminal trial, calling the jurist “corrupt” in a post on Truth Social.
“I have never falsified any business records. This is a trumped-up accusation by a corrupt judge who is just doing his job for the Biden/Harris Injustice Bureau and an attack on their political opponents,” Trump said. It started with a post targeting Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Marchan.
“The legal costs were called legal costs on the books. There was nothing else to call them. They were what you call falsification of records. I wasn't hiding anything and everything was made public. Everyone saw it.”
Trump was convicted in May of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels.
Marchan, whose daughter is a prominent Democratic consultant, raised eyebrows this week when she said she would proceed with Trump's sentence just 10 days before Trump's inauguration.
President Trump also said, “Another corrupt judge (overturned my case alone 5 times, the most overturned judge in New York!) has decided to vote 50-100 on the value of Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida. “We valued it at $18 million.” It's double that amount. ”
He was referring to Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Arthur F. Engoron, who presided over the civil fraud trial that ultimately resulted in Mr. Trump being ordered to pay a $500 million fine. This case is currently on appeal.
Trump also appeared to refer to author E. Jean Carroll, who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her in a department store and was ordered to pay nearly $100 million in damages, as “a woman I've never met.” is. President Trump vehemently denied the allegations.
The “deranged'' former special counsel Jack Smith, who investigated President Trump's alleged mishandling of classified documents, also came under fire.
“This is why people and businesses are fleeing New York's corrupt court system,” President Trump wrote. “The Biden/Harris Department of Justice was directly or indirectly involved in each of these cases.”
In a later post, Trump added: “No president has ever been treated more wickedly and unlawfully than me.”
