President-elect Trump raged Saturday towards the Manhattan choose who oversaw his prison trial, calling the jurist “corrupt” in a Reality Social put up.
“I never falsified business records. It is a fake, made up charge by a corrupt judge who is just doing the work of the Biden/Harris Injustice Department, an attack on their political opponent,” Trump started in a put up first concentrating on Manhattan Supreme Court docket Justice Juan Merchan.
“A legal expense was called, on the books, a legal expense. There was nothing else it could have been called. This was the so-called falsifying of records. I was hiding nothing, everything was out in the open for all to see.”
Trump was convicted in Could of 34 felony counts of falsifying enterprise information in connection to hush-money funds to porn star Stormy Daniels.
Merchan, whose daughter is a outstanding Democratic marketing consultant, raised eyebrows this week after saying he would proceed with Trump’s sentencing simply 10 days earlier than his inauguration as president of america.
Trump additionally referred to as out “another corrupt Judge (overturned 5 times on my case alone, & the most overturned judge in New York!) valued Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Florida, at $18,000,000, when it is worth 50 to 100 times that amount.”
He was referring to Manhattan Supreme Court docket Justice Arthur F. Engoron, who presided over Trump’s civil fraud trial by which he was in the end ordered to pay half a billion {dollars} in fines. The case is at the moment being appealed.
Trump additionally apparently referred to author E. Jean Carroll, calling her “the woman I never met,” who was awarded almost $100 million in damages after accusing Trump of sexually assaulting her in a division retailer. Trump has vehemently denied the allegation.
Former particular counsel “Deranged” Jack Smith — who probed Trump’s alleged mishandling of labeled paperwork — additionally earned a shoutout.
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“This is why people, and companies, are FLEEING New York – A corrupt court system,” Trump wrote. “The Biden/Harris DOJ was involved, directly or indirectly, in each of these cases.”
In a comply with up put up Trump added that “there has never been a President who was so evilly and illegally treated as I.”