Former President Donald Trump, speaking outside a Manhattan courtroom on Wednesday, said he would “save his reputation” if Judge Juan Marchand dismisses the New York v. Trump lawsuit.
“The confusion is nobody knows what the crime is because there isn’t a crime. Nobody knows what the crime is. The prosecutors haven’t released the name of the crime at this point. They don’t know what the crime is. That’s the problem. This is a disgrace. This case should be ended immediately. The judge should end this and save his reputation,” Trump said Wednesday evening.
Trump’s comments came after the jury began deliberations on Wednesday.
Since deliberations began, jurors had sent two notes to Marchan requesting to hear his instructions again. In New York criminal cases, jurors are not allowed to receive copies of jury instructions or witness transcripts.
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Republican presidential candidate and former US President Donald Trump attends his criminal trial at New York State Supreme Court in New York City, New York, Wednesday, May 29, 2024. (Doug Mills/Pool via Reuters)
Trump is facing 34 cases of falsifying business recordsProsecutors sought to prove that Trump paid former porn actress Stormy Daniels $130,000 before the 2016 election and then falsified business records to conceal the payment to silence her allegations that she had an affair with Trump in 2006.
“You know, the judge is extremely conflicted and corrupt. Extremely corrupt because he’s conflicted. Not even Mother Teresa could overturn these charges. These charges are fraudulent. They’re all fraudulent,” Trump said late Wednesday morning, as the jury began its verdict.
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Judge Juan M. Marchan poses in a New York courtroom on March 14, 2024. With testimony wrapped up in Donald Trump’s hush money trial after more than four weeks and nearly two dozen witnesses, the trial is entering its crucial final phase: closing arguments, a jury verdict and possibly a verdict. Judge Marchan is expected to spend about an hour explaining the law in the case to jurors, laying out a road map for what they can and can’t take into account when deciding whether Trump is guilty or innocent. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
“The whole country is in turmoil over the border and the fake election, and the judges are in a state of conflict and breathlessness. They have to do their job. … This is shameful, that’s what I think,” he said. Mother Teresa didn’t win. On these charges. But we’ll see what happens. We’ll see what happens.”
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Trump has repeatedly called on Marchant to drop the lawsuit and step down, saying last week that dropping the suit would allow him to “regain respect.”
Former US President Donald Trump watches as Rona Graff testifies in Trump’s criminal trial on charges that he falsified business records to hide money paid to silence porn actress Stormy Daniels in 2016, at a state court in Manhattan, New York City, US, on April 26, 2024. In this courtroom sketch, (Reuters/Jane Rosenberg)
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“This case should be thrown out by the judge. If the judge throws it out, I think we can get some respect back. The appeals court has to step in and something has to happen. Think about it: The Republican Party, one of the two major parties, nominates someone and that candidate has to sit in freezing air conditioning for almost five weeks listening to this,” Trump said last Monday.
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The trial will resume at 9.30am on Thursday when Judge Marchan will again give jury instructions, after which the jury will resume deliberations.
