Donald Trump is appearing this Tuesday, April 4, in a Manhattan court. He will be notified of the exact charges against him in the Stormy Daniels case, named after this former porn actress to whom he paid a large sum of money, just before the 2016 presidential election, to stop her. to claim that they had slept together. Since the announcement of his indictment on Thursday March 30, Donald Trump, who is the first former president indicted in the entire history of the United States, has multiplied criticism against the judge who should preside over the hearing.
Juan Merchan is a Colombian-born judge with many years of experience in New York courts where he has worked since the mid-2000s.
What Donald Trump criticizes him for is having presided over the hearings in two cases whose outcome was unfavorable to the Trump Organization, the billionaire’s historic company. In January, for example, the company was fined just over $1.5 million, the maximum amount allowed by law, for falsifying its accounts in order to pay less tax.
Enough to make the former president say that the judge ” the hate », Message written in capital letters on his social network. Accusation which also comes in addition to the criticisms he has constantly made against the prosecutor in charge of the case, Alvin Bragg, and his noisy statements, assuring that he is the victim of a witch hunt , and a politicized justice, which would seek to hinder his candidacy for the presidency of 2024.
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