Judge Juan Manuel Merchan Mia covered the conflict of interest surrounding the judge presiding over the case against former President Donald Trump. Trump was arraigned last week, indicted on shoddy charges by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg over Trump's hush money scheme with ex-porn star Stormy Daniels. As we’ve explained ad nauseum, the law violations at play here are misdemeanors whose statute of limitations had expired, but Bragg argued former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the COVID pandemic stopped the clock on those charges, which were then elevated to felonies after some careful legalese. In other words, it’s a politically biased hatchet job and gross prosecutorial overreach, but you knew that. After all the Byzantine language, Bragg is alleging the Stormy Daniels arrangement was an election finance violation, which is laughable. Trump frolicking with adult entertainers wasn’t going to impact the election. Barack Obama’s 2012 campaign also had a flurry of election law violations—where’s his indictment? That’s right; his campaign paid a fine. That should be what happens here since what Trump is facing hardly ever goes to trial, nor is significant jail time ever doled out. So, now that we’ve recapped this circus of an indictment. Let’s get into Judge Juan Manuel Merchan, whose daughter, Loren, is part of a progressive political operation that has raised over $250 million for Democratic candidates, including Biden-Harris. She was also a campaign staffer for Kamala Harris. As Cathell noted, Merchan also donated three times to Democrats in 2020, which could warrant an ethics violation, if we’re going to follow the rule of law (via Breitbart):
Of course, other legal analysts disagree, but that’s not the point. This case must be ironclad, with everyone involved being beyond reproach. Instead, we have a liberal DA working in a viciously anti-Trump city using a rabidly antagonistic grand jury to indict a former president, with a judge who is soaked in political bias and might have committed an offense worthy of an ethics probe and removal from the case. That’s not exactly a banner start, nor does it reinforce the public’s perception of this legal action. And there was a felony committed before the arraignment of Mr. Trump: someone leaked that he was facing 34 charges, which is a crime. Divulging privileged grand jury information is a felony. We all knew this would be a fiasco, and we must wait until December 4 for the second act. |
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