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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All this over some f’n broad who wanted some bucks and a free advertising.
Let Merchan issue the warrant and send deputies to go arrest Trump. Trump will gain a couple more points.
Hit him where it hurts.
Trump should have a rally every other night in and around New York City including the Bronx, Brooklyn and Harlem to help grow the MAGA faithful in New York City and throughout the state.
Do this and the Democrats will be begging Trump to leave the city.
Democrats and leftists are so petty.
It’s beyond disgusting.
God eventually, and boy, he's NOT going to like it what with the way God HATES the perversion of justice.
No, this is just wishful thinking on the part of far too many Freepers. Trump will be found guilty of something, and there will be a punishment. The American people do not have Trump's back, and the leftists know this.
“really depends on if we are on time and where we are in the trial”
Perhaps God will look down on the wickedness of this and bring that day to a close early with the vile things coming from the judge’s mouth and pant legs.
As Abraham asked, “Shall not the Judge of the earth do right?”
(See Genesis 18:25.)
What does where Barron is going to college have to do with this? Geesh. He wants to go to a graduation of his son.
He isn’t making a statement that he is above the law.
What an asinine remark.
The man has been putting up with this lawfare crap for a long time now. He has obliged the crooked sonofabitches every time.
That friggin “Judge” is the one who should be going to prison, not president Trump. That “judge” is an ass.
does Judge Merchan have anyone he answers to...another higher court perhaps? ... a supervisor....anyone?
Judge Merchan sits at a trial court, the lowest step on the judicial ladder of New York. That would be the New York State Supreme Court for the County of New York, located in New York County, better known as the borough of Manhattan.
Try not to dwell on the name. It's a trial court, and above trial courts are appellate courts.
Next up the chain, he answers to the New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Judicial Department, with jurisdiction over New York and Bronx counties.
Over that is the New York State Court of Appeals, located in the state capital of Albany, upstate. That is the highest court in the state. Like the U.S. Supreme Court, it chooses what cases it desires to hear.
I really get sick of them aiming too low.
yes
What hill are we ready to die on?
This is harassment.. No other word.. They are out of control!
Trump us a family man. A once in a lifetime event. I’d take SS and go. Hell with them
..........even in our f’d up judiciary, a guilty verdict of any kind will get thrown out on appeal............
Get him back in as President.. And have a bonfire.. All of them.. Power in Trump’s hand.. End their reign of terror!
In a day!!
They pull power on him.. Each time they get by with it.. It continues.. It escalates.
He is trying to keep it civil.. They just up the price.
I’m not a lawyer, however, the article says the corrupt judge read Trump is right to be in court for the trial, then dictated he must. Those two don’t match up. If you have the right to attend but you have an attorney to represent you, unless you’re going to be testifying that day, you don’t really need to be there, right?
They do.. They demand.. They deny.. They make it up as required to get what they want.
There is no one stopping them.
I just hope that when Trump is re-elected, he roars into office one meteoric, fireball of retribution!
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I just hope he’s re-elected, but I’ll be shocked if he is.
It’s NOT a G’d ‘hush money trial’ STOP IT! Gateway pundit.
It’s a bunch of out of control democrats trying to interfere and influence an election. There was no illegality at all in what he did. Even that little lying puke Michael Cohen knows that.
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