Former President Donald Trump took to Truth Social early Tuesday morning to criticize Judge Juan Merchan, the judge overseeing Trump’s trial concerning hush money payments related to his alleged sexual encounter with pornstar Stormy Daniels.
Trump urged Merchan to dismiss the case, suggesting that doing so would greatly restore the reputation of New York’s justice system.
“Judge Juan Merchan, who has thus far been the exact Conflicted Democrat Operative his Comrades expected, has a chance to take a real step toward rehabilitating both his Reputation and the Justice System of New York by dismissing the Biden Election Interference Witch Hunt brought by Soros funded D.A. Alvin Bragg,” Trump posted.
“Every serious Legal Expert and Scholar is unequivocally stating that the ‘prosecutors’ have not come close to putting on a case, THERE IS NO CRIME, which means that the right thing to do is to END THIS SCAM NOW AND FOREVERMORE,” Trump stated. “It would be a Big, Bold, Beautiful, but Highly Unexpected, yet BRILLIANT, step toward Justice in New York, and our Nation as a whole!”
Trump was charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree “with intent to defraud and intent to commit another crime” in relation to the alleged hush money payment to Daniels. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg filed the lawsuit on March 30, 2023.
The trial began on April 15, 2024, and was expected to last six to eight weeks. According to reports, prosecutors have struggled to prove that the former president had extensive knowledge about the scheme to pay off Daniels to secure her silence while Trump was campaigning for president in 2016.
Trump has denied any wrongdoing or breaking any laws, repeatedly referring to the trial as a “witch hunt.”
