Major legal experts and opponents expressed utter disbelief and disgust over the injustice and bias they claim occurred in the courtroom of the former US president’s business records trial in Manhattan.
Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz said it was a” scene” far worse than anything he has seen anywhere in the world, including in crooked places such as China, Russia, and Ukraine, writing in a New York Post ops- ed , Tuesday:
In my 60 times as a lawyer and regulation teacher, I have never seen a scene like the one I saw yesterday sitting in the front row of the court.
Alan Dershowitz ( Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images )
Despite appearing to be a beneficent tyrant, the prosecutor in Donald Trump’s trial was an absolute dictator. After sitting in the court and witnessing the trials, he wrote about Judge Juan Merchan,  , as “he seemed to be ruling against the defendant at every change.”
Dershowitz recalled Merchan’s care of the Trump defense player’s hear Robert Costello, who was a former prosecutor for Democrat District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s” sun see” Michael Cohen.
He said Merchan “went crazy” after he raised his eyebrows at one of his decisions and cleared the whole court, including of editors.
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Dershowitz claimed that he witnessed “one of the most remarkable wrong-headed prejudices I have always witnessed”:
Costello’s testimony was truly threatened by the prosecutor to disprove it if he raised his voice once more. That, of course, would have been illegal because it would have violated the defendant’s Sixth Amendment right to challenge witnesses and present a security. It would have punished the accuser for anything a witness was alleged to do.
He said if the prosecutor had struck Costello’s evidence, it would have been “utterly illegal and unlawful”.
” The judge’s danger was absolutely absurd, irresponsible, immoral and petty”, he added.
Judge Juan Merchan, left, castigates hear Robert Costello about his “decorum” in the court in Manhattan legal jury on May 20, 2024, in New York. ( Elizabeth Williams via AP )
Gregg Jarrett, a previous defense attorney and recent Fox News legal scientist, said the test bore” no connection” to the” respected legal guarantee” of the right to a fair trial.
Jarrett said:
Our legal structure was mocked by District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s immoral situation. Judge Juan Merchan exacerbated the injustice by destroying the rules of due process that each plaintiff deserves. His bench’s decisions regularly favored the prosecution and prevented Trump’s attorneys from presenting a legitimate protection in any other courtroom.
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Together, Bragg and Merchan demonstrated how much respect the rule of law or the privileges of the accused are accorded. This is not an objective court. A predetermined outcome is the result of an Orwellian show trial. There’s no presumption of innocence, just the desire of sadness.
Jarrett , argued that Merchan allowed Cohen and another witness, video actress Stormy Daniels, “unfettered latitude to crap Trump in court”.
” Gratuitous, sordid details and rank speculation meant to prejudice the jury were eagerly welcomed by Merchan”, Jarrett wrote.
On May 9, 2024, Stormy Daniels testifies on the witness stand as a special photo for one of her exhibits featuring a Trump image is displayed on screens in Manhattan Criminal Court in New York. ( Elizabeth Williams via AP )
The judge, however,” shut him down faster than a New York minute” when he was sworn in and began to properly describe his former client as a fraud actor who lied to the judge about the key points in the case.
Jarrett also criticized Merchan’s limits on Brad Smith, a former federal election commission director and expert on campaign finance law, being the defense player’s another scheduled see. Smith posted on X  after being called never to speak because the protection decided they could not use him because of his excessive restrictions.
Jarrett claimed that Merchan’s choice to impose Smith gave Cohen the authority to “misinterpret national strategy rules over which he had no knowledge or expertise.”
Merchan, according to Jarrett, do not allow the defense to summon a qualified expert, the former head of the Federal Election Commission, to adequately describe to the jury what constitutes an unconstitutional campaign contribution under the terms of the election law.
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” Without the professional’s evidence, jury will now be left to make an confused guess. Which is exactly what Bragg and Merchan are relying on, he said.
Sean Hannity, the number of the Fox News program, stated following Merchan’s explosion that” Joe Biden-donor Judge Merchan has been against Donald Trump from morning one.” Presently he sees what has happened in his court. And now he’s attempting to conserve Bragg’s immoral case against Trump in an effort to cross the finish line.
He added:
Make no mistake, Judge Juan Merchan is now doing everything he can to get Donald Trump by throwing [a lifeline after lifeline ] into Alvin Bragg. Do n’t forget that the illustrious Democrat did not only donate to Judge Merchan, but also that his daughter is a political and democratic activist who reportedly raised millions from this particular case. This New York Democrat has no greater desire than Donald Trump’s impeachment.
He noted Merchan was” no picked at random”.
” He was hands- selected for his experience in past pro- Trump cases”, he said. ” This case is not about law and justice. It’s about keeping Trump in a courtroom, smearing him in public hoping for a conviction based solely on politics”.
The legal experts claimed that Merchan and Bragg have violated the Smith Amendment by failing to state explicitly what” crime” Trump is alleged to have committed.
Judge Juan M. Merchan poses in his chambers in New York, March 14, 2024. ( AP Photo/Seth Wenig )
According to Bragg, the falsification of records is a novel and dubious offense because it was intended to cover up another” crime” of trying to influence the 2016 elections. Trump has also violated a New York state law against falsifying business records by classifying an alleged campaign expense as a legal expense.
Merchan and Bragg were ripped by Jarrett for not defining the nature of that second” crime.” He wrote:
The judge allowed the prosecution to conceal the so-called “mysterious crime” that somehow turns an expired misdemeanor into felonious conduct throughout the trial. So, we are at the conclusion of the trial, both sides have rested their respective cases, and closing arguments are scheduled to start on Tuesday. However, we are no closer to understanding the crime that Trump is alleged to have committed. It’s a farce.
Jarrett continued:
No competent or impartial judge would have permitted such a flagrant violation of the Sixth Amendment. Every defendant has the fundamental right to be informed of the defendant’s nature and the basis for their accusation. However, Bragg never adhered to that guarantee. Even worse, Merchan managed to get away with it in the same way that he allowed the misuse of his neighborhood court to impose a federal law on which he had no authority or authority.
Hannity noted that” the only real crime detailed during the case involve not Donald Trump, but Michael Cohen, their star witness stealing tens of thousands , of dollars from the Trump Organization”.
Jarrett also criticised Trump’s constant use of a “gag order,” which forbids him from speaking to Cohen and other witnesses throughout the trial while allowing Cohen to criticize him completely.
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The damage the case has done to the judiciary will stretch” well beyond the verdict”, Jarrett predicted.
He continued, adding that” the corrupt actions of the prosecutor and the transparent prejudice of the judge constitute moral failings that will unavoidably lead to cynicism about democratic government.”
A bad joke was made about the idea of equal playing field. Instead, Bragg and Merchan conspired to poison the case by indoctrinating the jury with fictitious testimony and false information. In every way, they tried to conjure up the panel so they could believe there was criminal activity going on despite the contrary evidence.
In reality, the prosecution has n’t been satisfied with any of the key components of the alleged crimes in the indictment. There is no conclusive proof that Trump planned or even knew about accounting book entries that were at all false. There is also no conclusive evidence that he intentionally contravened any campaign regulations that are otherwise unconstitutional. Where is the fraud that the prosecution alleged in their opening statement? Like Bigfoot, it’s a fictitious missing link in the case.
He claimed that this has always been a trial for a disgraceful charade and an imaginary crime. ” This case has a lot of reasonable doubt written all over it,” he said. However, District Attorney Alvin Bragg has provided a litany of lies and deceptions to the jury that were supported by presiding Judge Juan Merchan. Through the tyranny of mendacity and unchecked power, they have collectively violated the rights of the accused.
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