(PM.) Speaking to the media after appearing in court for the first day of his falsified business documents case on Monday, Donald Trump slammed Judge Juan Merchan for signing an order that will prevent him from attending his youngest son’s graduation.
The charges were brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who alleged that funds paid to his then-attorney Michael Cohen in the lead up to the 2020 election were allegedly given to porn star Stormy Daniels to prevent her from speaking out about their alleged interactions.
Trump: “It looks like the judge will not let me go to the graduation of my son, who has worked very very hard.” pic.twitter.com/jtSd5rXqNk
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“We had some amazing things happen today,” Trump began. “My son has graduated from high school, and it looks like the judge will not let me go to the graduation of my son, who has worked very very hard. He’s a great student, and very proud of the fact that he did so well, and he was looking forward for years to have graduation with his mother and father there.”
“Looks like the judge isn’t gonna allow me to escape this scam,” he continued, calling it a “scam trial” and a “political witch hunt.”
Trump claimed that of all the legal scholars and pundits he’d heard, not one said that it was a case that should be brought or tried.
He went on to lament that along with missing Barron’s graduation, the aforementioned order would also bar him from attending proceedings in his immunity case at the Supreme Court in Washington, DC.
“We got a real problem with this judge,” Trump said. “We got a problem with a lot of things having to do with this trial, including the DA, because you go outside and people are being mugged and killed all day long and he’s sitting here all day with about 10 or 12 prosecutors over nothing.”
He said the fact that he was stuck in New York and couldn’t campaign across the country was “perfect for the radical left Democrats,” and “exactly what they want.”
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