During an appearance in court on Friday, former President Donald Trump used a paper shredder to shred the judge, Juan Machan, who gagged Trump in a business records trial, and said the judge had threatened him with future violations and that he was “dead of our country.” “I’m very proud to go to prison for the Constitution.”
Trump spoke for more than 10 minutes after court on Friday, denouncing the gag order. As Breitbart News reported in March, the order prohibits speaking about witnesses, other Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, “court staff or district attorney staff, or family members of … attorneys or staff.” ing.
JUST IN—President Trump issues a massive statement to the press outside a New York City courtroom, amid a slew of newspaper headlines accusing Biden and Democrats of legal fare fraud, a.k.a. gag order violations.
“Biden is lying about everything, including his golf playing!” pic.twitter.com/LP8ThVxsmv
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) May 10, 2024
“What the judge did was astonishing, in fact, astonishing,” Trump told reporters at the beginning of his statement. “Everyone can say whatever they want to say. They can say whatever they want to say, but I’m not allowed to say anything about anyone. It’s a disgrace. , you’ll see. The media will see that.”
This courtroom sketch depicts Judge Juan M. Marchan presiding over the trial of former President Donald Trump on Monday, April 15, 2024, in Manhattan Criminal Court in New York. (Jane Rosenberg/Pool, via AP)
President Trump’s comments came after the defense argued in a motion for mistrial on Tuesday that the testimony of porn star Stormy Daniels fell outside of “guardrails” set by the government regarding the scope of her testimony, a claim Marchan denied. It is something that Meanwhile, President Trump is prohibited from speaking about Daniels because she is a witness.
Stormy Daniels leaves Manhattan Criminal Court after testifying in former President Donald Trump’s business records trial in New York City on May 9, 2024. Adult film actress Daniels returned to her stand Thursday for another cross-examination by the former’s lawyers. president. (Charlie Tribarrow/AFP via Getty)
He showed reporters images of numerous opinion pieces written by legal experts and columnists such as Jonathan Turley and Alan Dershowitz. wall street journal Kimberly Strassel written An article titled “Trump and the collapse of the 2024 law” was published on Thursday.
“That article is unbelievable and I would like to give it to you, but the problem is that it is not allowed, because if something is mentioned against certain people, and they You know who it is, if you mention certain people or even anything, because he wants it to ‘put me in jail,”’ President Trump said of Marchan.
“And that could happen someday. I’m very proud to go to prison for the Constitution, because what he’s doing is very unconstitutional,” he added.
The 45th president seemed to have about a dozen different articles in hand before calling it “a dark day for New York City, a dark day for New York state, a very dark day for our country.”
On Monday, Marchan targeted Trump in contempt for the 10th time. As noted by Breitbart News, he said he would consider prison sentences if the former president continues to violate his orders, and also acknowledged that he could be the next president.
President Trump also argued Friday that the lawsuit “should never have been filed, but if it was going to be filed, it should have been filed seven years ago.”
“Remember, everyone said no. The Southern District refused, Washington refused, the Federal Election Commission refused,” he added.
