BY BILL JUNEAU
The "hush money" trial of former President Trump is underway in the criminal courthouse in Manhattan, comfortable home for "Never Trump" Democrats. The trial is presided over by Judge Juan Manuel Merchan who President Trump charges is "conflicted." Says Trump: "He should recuse himself, and cut out the pretense of being fair-minded.....He is a "certified Trump-Hater."
Merchan, 61, is presiding over the trial and according to the ex-President and his lawyers, was ushered onto the judge's chair by arrangement of District Attorney, Alvin Bragg, who, Trump asserts, is a "thug" and a "degenerate psychopath" doing the bidding of the Democratic national committee and the Joe Biden Justice Department.
Bragg's mission is the conviction of the former United States President; and the free sailing to a second term for the befuddled Joe Biden. Upon the selection of the Columbia-born Merchan as trial judge, the Trump team of attorneys filed a motion demanding that he recuse himself because of a serious conflict of interest. Judge Merchan, however, has declined to allow for a substitution of judges and to leave the litigation.
It is no secret---the Democratic Party, often referred to as the Party of the Mule or the Jackass, is determined to destroy Donald Trump with a guilty verdict and make him into a felon whose chances for a second term next November will be diminished. The entire case against Trump has been called legally defective in a variety of ways by nationally prominent lawyers.
Using his "Truth" social media platform, Trump upbraided the judge for his relationship with his daughter, Loren, whose company lists Adam Schiff and the Democratic Political Action Committee (PAC) as clients. Both have targeted and attacked President Trump. Trump said that he has the right to speak out in accord with the Bill of Rights and the First Amendment to the Constitution.
According to records, Loren Merchan, 35, is the president of Authentic Campaigns, a progressive political consulting firm based in Chicago. The firm has two major clients, Schiff, a California congressman, who was the lead prosecutor in Trump's first impeachment trial, and now is running for a U.S. senate seat; and the Senate PAC (Political Action Committee), which is a major fund raiser for Democratic senatorial candidates.
For all four years of the Trump presidency beginning in January 2017, Schiff, who Trump has referred to as "Shifty," lied continually and said that Trump was a pawn and a water boy for Russian President Vladimir Putin. Eventually, a $33 million investigation cleared Trump of colluding with Russia, and subsequently, Schiff was censured by the House of Representatives and described by his peers as a "liar" and a "crook."
With Ms. Merchan as adviser to "Trump-haters" and with her father presiding at the Trump trial now underway, Schiff has been campaigning for a California senate seat. He has pulled in $20 million in donations, using Merchan campaign literature excoriating President Trump as he faces the criminal trial.
Along with counseling and advising the mendacious Schiff and telling him what to say, Ms. Merchan supports democratic candidates seeking election to the Senate. According to the New York Post newspaper, the PAC generated $73.6 million since it began firing off fundraising emails following the ex president's indictment.
To rein in President Trump from voicing criticism of Loren Merchan and her Democratic ties, Judge Merchan has issued a "gag" order on the ex-President which bars him from making statements about attorneys, court staff or family members of prosecutors, lawyers and court personnel. Also, the gag order proscribes Trump's criticism of his former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, who is slated to be a witness against the ex-President, and who has been badmouthing Trump to the media at every opportunity.
On April 30, Judge Merchan found Trump in contempt of his "gag" order and at the request of Prosecutor Bragg fined him $9,000 for nine comments on his Truth platform in which he had excoriated the judge's daughter for her Democratic work in helping to take down the former President Trump.
In finding the ex-President in contempt, he warned him that he could go to jail if he continues to ignore the orders of his court.
Why is Judge Merchan resisting the defendant's demand that he recuse himself as the presiding judge based upon clear evidence of his partiality on behalf of Democrats, and against Trump; and with full awareness of his daughter's democratic party affiliations and connections? He is presiding at the trial because he wants to do his part as a Democrat and a "certified Trump Hater."
Has the Democratic Party become so strong in New York City, and particularly in the borough of Manhattan that the words "honesty and fair trial" are lost completely? "It's the Democrat's way or the highway," or so they say.
Republicans are virtually non-existent in Manhattan and the Democratic Party there is bulging with "never Trump" members.
In Manhattan, for example, not a single elected office holder is a Republican. In fact, according to 2023 records, Manhattan Republicans are absent entirely from the New York Senate and House; and have no presence in the New York City Council. Also, no Manhattan based republicans have been elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
As of the end of 2023, records reveal that there are 106,000 registered Republicans and 878,000 Democrats signing in from Manhattan. In the 2020 presidential vote in that borough, Biden got 88 per cent of vote to Trump's 12 per cent. You can be pretty sure that the jurors picked in the trial, whose names are not being released, share the political views harbored by the judge and the dishonest prosecutor.
With those majorities, common sense tells you that the idea of "fair" treatment for Republican Donald Trump is simply not going to happen. Believing in Manhattan honesty and a fair trial for the ex-President is simply fodder for fools.
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