On Monday Donald Trump said that he has a real problem with the judge handling his New York criminal case and that he should be on the campaign trail instead of in court.
‘We’re not going to be given a fair trial’, said Trump to the media outside the Manhattan courtroom after jury selection ended for the day in his hush money trial, one of four separate criminal cases he faces.
Trump also criticised Judge Juan Merchan for declining his request that he be allowed to attend a Supreme Court hearing next week.
Trump argues that as a former president, he should be immune from criminal prosecution, a question which the highest court has to weigh in arguments on April 25.
‘The judge of course is not going to allow us to go to that’, Trump said. He further added, ‘He thinks he’s superior, I guess, to the Supreme Court’.
Repeatedly, Trump has criticised the judge presiding over the trial, and Merchan rejected a request by the former president’s attorneys on Monday that he recuse himself from the case.
‘We’ve got a real problem with this judge and he is a very conflicted judge’, Trump said.
Trump criticised the case brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, a Democrat as a political witch hunt and said he should be out campaigning in his 2024 White House bid.
‘I’m not in Georgia, or Florida or North Carolina, campaigning like I should be’, the Republican presidential candidate said.
Trump, the first ex-president to face criminal charges, is accused of falsifying business records for paying hush money to a porn star just days ahead of the 2016 presidential election, to cover up a 2006 sexual encounter.
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