On January 3, New York Judge Juan Merchan rejected President-Elect Donald Trump’s request that his “hush money” convictions be vacated based on the US Supreme Court’s presidential immunity decision in Trump v. United States. Merchan has scheduled a “sentencing” of Donald Trump for January 10, in which no incarceration will be imposed. What’s the point?
Sensationalist histrionics that Donald Trump is “a convicted felon” arise solely from the supposed 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to influence the 2016 Presidential election concocted by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. Stitched tenuously together to avoid statutes of limitation, amplify the charges against Trump to felonies, and intrude into federal election jurisdiction, these 34 heinous counts (arising from a single $130,000 payment!) will now be disposed of via an “unconditional discharge.”
New York City subways resemble barbaric scenes from Mad Max, yet Brave Alvin Bragg has waged a perverse political crusade against candidate Donald Trump, enabled by Merchan’s mockery of judicial ethics and disregard for constitutional precepts. The convoluted criminal counts against Donald Trump should never have been allowed to proceed; evidence concerning official acts of the President was improperly admitted by Merchan at trial despite strenuous objections of counsel; the US Supreme Court ruled US Presidents are immune from prosecution for official acts, confirming Donald Trump’s trial was irredeemably tainted; Donald Trump resoundingly won the 2024 presidential election. Still, Merchan marches along in his one-man witch hunt. January 10 will likely be his last sterile limp in the MSM limelight.
Trump spokesman and incoming White House Communications Director Steven Cheung called Merchan’s ruling “a direct violation of the Supreme Court’s Immunity decision and other longstanding jurisprudence.” Re-elected House Speaker Mike Johnson has previously condemned Merchan’s Kafkian hush money cases against Trump, stating, “This was a purely political exercise, not a legal one. ….The weaponization of our justice system has been a hallmark of the Biden Administration….”
As if determined to leave the stench of corrupt Banana Republic lawfare by unhinged Democrats hanging in the Inauguration Day air, Merchan has refused to relent in his increasingly ludicrous hijinks. The infamous hush money trial was a Jerry Springer clown show competing with the similarly shameless escapades of Fani Willis, both obvious partisan prosecutorial fictions Alinsky-crafted to tarnish Donald Trump’s reputation on election eve.
Such audacious corruption likely helped Donald Trump win the election, assisted by the venomous legal and character attacks against Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Americans have watched in growing disgust as Merchan, Bragg, Willis, and other public officials have jettisoned any notion of ethical appearances in their blind pursuit to derail the American political and legal systems in order to undermine the Orange Donald Man. The scheduling of Donald Trump’s sentencing is a reflection of the Merchan-Go- Round carnival ride: Merchan originally scheduled the former President’s sentencing hearing for July 11, then September 18, then November 26, and now January 10. Such a laggard protocol, following such a speedy political witch trial.
Merchan’s pathetic partisan pistol has shrunk in caliber at every legal step, whittling down his lawfare arsenal from an intimidating laundry list of felonies, to tainted convictions based on improper evidence, to utter judicial impotence post-election. Merchan resembles Tolkien’s Saruman in the hollowed-out judicial wreckage of his Ent-flooded court, his perfidy to the Rule of Law exposed while he kicks his obsequious sidekick Alvin Wormtongue down the spiral courthouse steps.
Juan Merchan has no power over Donald Trump and seeks to preen his feathers as Trump’s faux foe one last time, the naked Emperor launching one last visit to the nude beach before winter falls. Considering the vital work before him staunching the flow of illegals into the nation, bolstering a wobbly economy, and preventing escalating wars abroad, it is hard to imagine why America’s incoming 47th President Trump would even bother to appear in the Monty Python skit that New York Judge Juan Merchan’s courtroom has devolved into – in person or virtually, Merchan’ds New York venue is no longer worthy of any imprimatur of legitimacy.
