Posted on 04/15/2024 3:56:57 PM PDT by bitt
President Trump on Monday afternoon spoke to the press after the first day of the Stormy Daniels ‘hush money’ trial in Manhattan.
Jury selection was underway on Monday morning for Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s lawfare case against Trump related to ‘hush payments’ made to porn star Stormy Daniels.
After refusing to recuse himself, Judge Juan Merchan on Monday threatened to put President Trump in jail if he doesn’t show up for trial.
Merchan read Trump his right to be in court during the trial.
The judge told Trump a warrant would be issued for his arrest if he failed to show up to trial without a valid reason.
President Trump asked the judge if he could skip the trial on Wednesday for his son Barron’s graduation.
Judge Merchan said that the decision “really depends on if we are on time and where we are in the trial.”
President Trump spoke out after Judge Merchan threatened him with jail if he skipped court.
President Trump: We had some amazing things happen today.
As you know, my son is graduating from high school, and it looks like the judge will not let me go through the graduation of my son, who’s worked very, very hard. He’s a great student. We’re very proud of the fact that he did so well. And he was looking forward for years to have this graduation with his mother and father there. It looks like the judges are not going to allow me to escape this scam. It’s a scam trial.
If you read all of the legal pundits, all of the legal scholars today, there’s not one that I see that said this is a case that should be brought or tried. It’s a scam. It’s a political witch hunt. It continues It continues forever. And we’re not going to be given a fair trial. It’s a very, very sad thing.
In addition, as you know, next Thursday, we’re before the United States Supreme Court in a very big hearing on immunity. And this is something that we We’ve been waiting for a long time. The judge, of course, is not going to allow us.
He’s a very conflicted judge, and he’s not going to allow us to go to that. He won’t allow me to leave here for a half a day, go to DC, and go before the United States Supreme Court because he thinks he’s superior, I guess, than the Supreme Court. We got a real problem with this judge. We have a real problem with a lot of things having to do with this trial, including the DA, because you go right outside and people are being muffled and killed all day long. He’s sitting here all day with 10 or 12 prosecutors over nothing, over what people say shouldn’t be a trial.
I just want to thank you very much.
How awful!
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Trump should simply go anyway. Will the judge really dare to jail him for attending his son’s graduation?
I want to see this criminal lawfare Marxist communist judge destroyed and imprisoned. The lowlifes surround him, he is bound to be mixed up in some evil felonies and treason certainly.
He has to be in court and show that he is not above the “law”.
Where is his son going to college?
Do democrats ever get sick of shooting themselves in the foot?
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The process is the punishment.
If they thought they could get away with it, they would line Trump, us, and our family members up against the wall.
That's coming soon.
PoS judge!
The greatest threat to “just constitutional law” is the Judiciary itself. Oddly, they are sworn to uphold constitutional law and have become its mortal enemy.
Same thing happened in the USSR. If one looks at those old statutes and procedures as written they were just. A corrupt Judiciary carrying out the edicts of the Marxist executive made it an instrument of suppression and terror. This is happening here now in the USA.
I just hope that when Trump is re-elected, he roars into office one meteoric, fireball of retribution!
That should give Trump another few percent of the minority and independent vote.
A kangaroo court, and a "judge" from a banana republic, who re-located to the banana republic of New Jerk state.
RE:....and show that he is not above the “law”.
The corrupt, two tiered justice “law”? That treats J6 selfie takers as solitary confinement bound with no lawyers for a week. And lets major bridges and highways get blocked to show hatred for Israel?
Yeah. The law.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5s9lMzMhAU
does Judge Merchan have anyone he answers to...another higher court perhaps? ... a supervisor....anyone?
In New Jerk state, hardened multiple-repeat REAL felons get to walk without bail.
New Jerk state can shove their fake government, fake courts and fake law.
Baron needs to sue the judge
I’m not seeing a lot of opposition from right-wing jurists. The judiciary is having a grand old time persecuting Trump, anyone who worked for Trump, the J6 patriots, and anyone with traditional values.
If he goes and ends up in jail, the response will be he was irresponsible for not complying.
I do think that we have mostly bottomed out on the it’s helping President Trump.
The betting odds have mostly stayed the same for quite a while at this point.
😡😢 Our dear RPOTUS latest Truth about NOT being allowed to attend Barron’s High School Graduation:
Who will explain for me, to my wonderful son, Barron, who is a GREAT Student at a fantastic School, that his Dad will likely not be allowed to attend his Graduation Ceremony, something that we have been talking about for years, because a seriously Conflicted and Corrupt New York State Judge wants me in Criminal Court on a bogus “Biden Case” which, according to virtually all Legal Scholars and Pundits, has no merit, and should NEVER have been brought. This Fake Case is solely meant to attack Crooked Joe Biden’s Political Opponent, ME, who is seriously leading him in the Polls, for purposes of Election Interference. The Judge, Juan Merchan, is preventing me from proudly attending my son’s Graduation. Seems very unfair, doesn’t it? But this whole event is unfair. Every one of the many Fake Cases that are perpetuated by the White House in order to help the Worst President in History, by far, get Re-Elected, are UNJUST SCAMS. We won’t let that happen, but we will MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
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