Monday, April 08, 2024

Trump SUES Judge Merchan πŸ˜‚

He’s asking for a continuance in the trial (April 15), challenging the gag order, asking for a change of venue to (anywhere) [but Staten Island, the only borough he won in 2020, would be perfect. AP] outside Manhattan and…I don’t know about the second recusal motion.

Forbes: “Trump has tried this tactic before in the past—in September, Trump sued Judge Arthur Engoron, who presided over his civil fraud trial, and New York Attorney General Letitia James, who prosecuted him. The motion was denied by a panel of five justices on the New York Court of Appeals later that month.”

NYT: “The move is unlikely to succeed.”

AP: “Trump has also made numerous other attempts to get the trial postponed, echoing a strategy he’s deployed in his other criminal cases. “We want delays,” πŸ˜‚ Trump proclaimed to TV cameras outside a February pretrial hearing in his hush money case.

“The New York judge has yet to rule on another defense delay request, which claims that Trump won’t get a fair trial because of “prejudicial media coverage.”

“Prejudicial media coverage”! NO!🀣