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President Donald Trump blasted Judge Juan Merchan’s latest ruling that refused to throw out his New York conviction based on presidential immunity.
Trump took to his Truth Social profile on Tuesday to criticize the decision in a lengthy two-part post.
“ In a completely illegal, psychotic order, the deeply conflicted, corrupt, biased, and incompetent Acting Justice Juan Merchan has completely disrespected the United States Supreme Court, and its Historic Decision on Immunity. But even without Immunity, this illegitimate case is nothing but a Rigged Hoax,” Trump began.
“Merchan, who is a radical partisan, wrote an opinion that is knowingly unlawful, goes against our Constitution, and, if allowed to stand, would be the end of the Presidency as we know it. Merchan has so little respect for the Constitution that he is keeping in place an illegal gag order on me, your President and President-Elect, just so I cannot expose his and his family’s disqualifying and illegal conflicts,” he continued.
Trump argued that he is “the only Political Opponent in American History not allowed to defend myself – A despicable First Amendment Violation!”
He also once again criticized the case as a “witch hunt” against him, noting legal scholars siding with him in his case.
“Merchan took the Manhattan D.A.’s Witch Hunt, that, according to all Legal Scholars, including Jonathan Turley, Elie Honig, Andy McCarthy, Alan Dershowitz, Gregg Jarrett, David Rivkin, Elizabeth Price Foley, Katie and Andy Cherkasky, Paul Ingrassia, and many others, is a nonexistent case, barred by the Statute of Limitations, and should have never been brought and, through his fraud and misconduct, gave it a semblance of ‘life,’” Trump explained.
“While Deranged Jack Smith was sent packing back to The Hague after losing all of his politically manufactured cases against me, Merchan, who is far worse and even more corrupt than Smith in his fight for my hopeless political opponents, just cannot let go of this charade. Is it because of his conflicts and relations that he keeps breaking the Law? This has to stop! It is time to end the Lawfare once and for all, so we can come together as one Nation and, Make America Great Again,” Trump concluded.
The Monday ruling from Judge Juan Merchan determined that presidential immunity was not related to the issues in the case.
“Defendant’s motion to dismiss the indictment and vacate the jury verdict… is denied,” Merchan wrote.
Monday’s decision opens the possibility that Trump could become the first U.S. president to enter office with a felony conviction, though this would depend on the outcome of his appeal against the jury’s verdict, RSBN previously reported.