Trump lambasts justice system following sentencing news
Following his electoral victory, the president-elect's legal troubles dissipated, in part due to a campaign narrative portraying Trump as a victim of “lawfare” perpetrated by his political adversaries.
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After securing the presidency, Donald Trump appears to have put his legal troubles largely behind him, yet the president-elect criticized the justice system, claiming it unjustly targeted him after the New York judge assigned to his case set a sentencing date.
“There has never been a President who was so evilly and illegally treated as I,” Trump asserted on Saturday through a series of social media messages. “Corrupt Democrat judges and prosecutors have gone against a political opponent of a President, ME, at levels of injustice never seen before.”
This outburst followed Justice Juan Merchan's announcement on Friday that Trump is scheduled for sentencing on January 10 for his criminal hush money conviction. The judge also predicted that the president-elect, who is to enter the White House in roughly two weeks, is unlikely to face incarceration.
Previously, Trump faced four concurrent criminal cases, but they began to dissipate after his significant electoral win in November, which was partly framed as a narrative of being a target of "lawfare" executed by his Democratic adversaries. The New York hush money case, in which a jury convicted Trump of 34 counts of falsifying business records, remains the only one that has resulted in a criminal conviction on his record.
Despite this, Trump insisted on Saturday that he “never falsified business records,” labeling the case “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, ME!”
He went on to call for Merchan's disbarment, stating that the judge “should be disbarred!”
Trump also condemned New York’s justice system as “corrupt” and claimed its “crooked” courts are the reason “people, and companies, are FLEEING” his home state.
A New York appeals court on Monday upheld a $5 million civil verdict against Trump pertaining to sexual abuse and defamation allegations from E. Jean Carroll. The court noted in a 77-page opinion that “[T]he jury could reasonably infer … that Mr. Trump engaged in similar conduct with other women — a pattern of abrupt, nonconsensual, and physical advances on women he barely knew.”
“The woman I never met, who was awarded almost $100,000,000,” Trump remarked on Saturday regarding Carroll, who a jury ruled should receive $83.3 million due to Trump's defamatory comments about her. He denounced the judge in that case, Lewis Kaplan, as “A totally out of control, Trump hating judge.”
“Corrupt judges, or judges so blinded by their hatred of me and my political ideology to 'MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN,' are making a mockery of the United States Judicial System, and the World is watching in disgust,” Trump stated.
In response to these challenges, the president-elect has pledged to reform the Justice Department, which he views as one of the key components of the so-called government “deep state” that he and his supporters believe are covertly working to undermine his agenda. He has appointed former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi to lead the agency, which will be crucial as Trump seeks to implement the sweeping policies he campaigned on, including mass deportations.
Thomas Evans contributed to this report for TROIB News
“There has never been a President who was so evilly and illegally treated as I,” Trump asserted on Saturday through a series of social media messages. “Corrupt Democrat judges and prosecutors have gone against a political opponent of a President, ME, at levels of injustice never seen before.”
This outburst followed Justice Juan Merchan's announcement on Friday that Trump is scheduled for sentencing on January 10 for his criminal hush money conviction. The judge also predicted that the president-elect, who is to enter the White House in roughly two weeks, is unlikely to face incarceration.
Previously, Trump faced four concurrent criminal cases, but they began to dissipate after his significant electoral win in November, which was partly framed as a narrative of being a target of "lawfare" executed by his Democratic adversaries. The New York hush money case, in which a jury convicted Trump of 34 counts of falsifying business records, remains the only one that has resulted in a criminal conviction on his record.
Despite this, Trump insisted on Saturday that he “never falsified business records,” labeling the case “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, ME!”
He went on to call for Merchan's disbarment, stating that the judge “should be disbarred!”
Trump also condemned New York’s justice system as “corrupt” and claimed its “crooked” courts are the reason “people, and companies, are FLEEING” his home state.
A New York appeals court on Monday upheld a $5 million civil verdict against Trump pertaining to sexual abuse and defamation allegations from E. Jean Carroll. The court noted in a 77-page opinion that “[T]he jury could reasonably infer … that Mr. Trump engaged in similar conduct with other women — a pattern of abrupt, nonconsensual, and physical advances on women he barely knew.”
“The woman I never met, who was awarded almost $100,000,000,” Trump remarked on Saturday regarding Carroll, who a jury ruled should receive $83.3 million due to Trump's defamatory comments about her. He denounced the judge in that case, Lewis Kaplan, as “A totally out of control, Trump hating judge.”
“Corrupt judges, or judges so blinded by their hatred of me and my political ideology to 'MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN,' are making a mockery of the United States Judicial System, and the World is watching in disgust,” Trump stated.
In response to these challenges, the president-elect has pledged to reform the Justice Department, which he views as one of the key components of the so-called government “deep state” that he and his supporters believe are covertly working to undermine his agenda. He has appointed former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi to lead the agency, which will be crucial as Trump seeks to implement the sweeping policies he campaigned on, including mass deportations.
Thomas Evans contributed to this report for TROIB News
