Photo: Alamy
In a Thursday evening Truth Social post, President Trump slammed the players involved in the Manhattan District Attorney’s hush-money case just ahead of Judge Juan Merchan’s decision on delaying his sentencing, which is scheduled for September 18.
Merchan is expected to rule on the matter sometime Friday, according to The New York Times.
The 45th president shared quotes from multiple legal scholars along with his own analysis.
He pointedly wrote, “This is what various Legal Scholars and Experts, Brilliant Lawyers, and Highly Respected Journalists think of the Manhattan D.A. Hoax, where the Democrats, headed up by Comrade Kamala Harris, working directly with the DOJ (which they’re not supposed to be!), want to put a Former President of the United States, and the Leading Candidate for President, in PRISON. This is unheard of, there has never been anything like it in our Country, and they are doing it in a blatant and illegal attempt to “win” an Election that, based on their results, should be “unwinnable,” but I can’t talk about it because Judge Merchan has put an UnConstitutional Gag Order on me. Somehow it will ALL work out – I don’t know how, I don’t know why, I don’t know when, but it always does!”
Trump preempted his breakdown of the debacle with a quote from author and editor Rich Lowry, which said, “The charges were rigged, the prosecution’s presentation of the case was rigged, the judge’s management of the case was rigged, the gag order was rigged, and the instructions to the jury were rigged. The whole thing was rigged from beginning to end, in the hopes of — to the extent this case and the guilty verdict will matter in November — rigging the presidential election. If this had happened in an alderman race in Cook County, Ill., it’d be discomfiting enough, but it happened in what purports to be the greatest city in the world and involves the campaign to become the most powerful political leader in the free world.”
He also shared a joint quote from Democratic pollsters Doug Schoen and Carly Cooperman, who said, “Our finding that large pluralities or outright majorities of Americans perceive these indictments as politically motivated should be a warning sign to Democrats.”
Another post included comments from attorney Alan Dershowitz, who said, “I have observed and participated in trials throughout the world. I have seen justice and injustice in China, Russia, Ukraine, England, France, Italy, Israel, as well as in nearly 40 of our 50 states. But in my 60 years as a lawyer and law professor, I have never seen a spectacle such as the one I observed sitting in the front row of the courthouse.”
Attorney David Rivkin Jr. and legal theorist Elizabeth Price Foley said, “Trump’s Trial Violated Due Process: He was denied notice of the charges, meaningful opportunity to respond, and proof of all elements… The Constitution demands that higher courts throw out the verdict against him.”
Quotes from political commentator Bill O’Reilly, media personality and radio host Mark Levin, and various others were also shared by Trump ahead of the ruling.