Donald Trump has demanded that the judge overseeing his criminal “hush money” case “rescind the gag order!!!” And he should be campaigning, he said, rather than facing a criminal trial.
About an hour earlier, in a post on Truth Social, the former president criticized Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Marchan as a “Trump-hating judge” who “doesn’t let people who lie and spew hatred on TV react all day”. did. He appeared in court.
Mr. Trump, 77, said that Mr. Marchand made statements to the real estate mogul before the trial about witnesses, court officials, and the families of Mr. Marchand and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, whose office is prosecuting the case. He referred to the fact that he had been ordered to refrain from
The presumptive Republican presidential candidate is accused of falsifying business records to hide $130,000 he paid former porn star Stormy Daniels to hush her in the run-up to the 2016 election. He appeared in court Tuesday for the second day of jury selection in the accused case. Regarding her claims that she had an affair with Trump.
Before entering the courtroom, Trump, wearing a blue suit, blue-and-white striped tie and light blue shirt, went on a roughly two-minute rant to media cameras, saying he was on the campaign trail and not on the campaign trail. He insisted that he should participate. court.
“I should be in Pennsylvania and Florida right now,” the former commander-in-chief said. “There’s campaigning going on in a lot of other states like North Carolina, Georgia. This is all coming from the Biden White House because this guy can’t put two sentences together.”
“He can campaign,” President Trump said of Biden.
Trump also allegedly made false entries in business records to conceal the payment when he repaid the payment to Daniels to former lawyer and “fixer” Michael Cohen, and recorded it as a legal expense. He also mentioned one of the key allegations in the prosecutor’s office’s case.
President Trump said, “I paid my attorney’s fees and recorded them as “legal expenses.” “An accountant I don’t know recorded it as a legal expense. That’s exactly what happened. So I’m going to be prosecuted?”
While President Trump demands that the hush be lifted, prosecutors on Tuesday accused him of violating the executive order by calling Cohen, who will be the star witness at trial, a thug in a series of truthful posts. He filed papers seeking to be charged with contempt of court.
Marchan said Monday that he planned to address the debate over whether Trump violated the ban on Wednesday.
After a full day in court Monday, no jury has yet been selected for the trial, which is expected to last about six weeks.
