Justice Juan Merchan, who had abused Trump in his business information trial, was shredded by former president Donald Trump on Friday as he left the court, declaring that he would be “very happy to go to prison for our Constitution,” as the judge threatened future violations.
Trump blasted the gag order and spoke for more than ten days after the court hearing on Friday. The purchase bars him from speaking about witnesses, lawyers another Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, “members of the court’s employees and the District Attorney’s team, or … the family members of any guidance or staff associate”, as Breitbart News , noted in March.
Just in—President Trump addresses the press for an extended period of time outside the New York City courthouse, and he has a ton of press coverage disparaging Biden and the Democrats ‘ law-abuse scheme, aka not violating the gag order!
” Biden lies about everything, including his golf game”! pic. twitter.com/LP8ThVxsmv
— Charlie Kirk ( @charliekirk11 ) May 10, 2024
” What the judge did was amazing, actually, was amazing”, Trump told reporters at the top of his statement. Everyone has the right to say anything. I’m not permitted to speak anything about anyone, but they can say anything. It’s a disgrace, and you see it, the media sees it”.
In this courtroom sketch, Judge Juan M. Merchan presides over former U. S. President Donald Trump’s trial in a Manhattan criminal court in New York, Monday, April 15, 2024. ( Jane Rosenberg/Pool via AP )
Trump’s comments came after his defense argued during a motion for a mistrial on Tuesday, which Merchan denied, that Porn Star Stormy Daniels ‘ testimony deviated from the government’s “guardrails” set for the scope of her testimony. Meanwhile, as Daniels is a witness, Trump is prohibited from talking about her.
Stormy Daniels leaves Manhattan Criminal Court on May 9, 2024, after giving testimony at the New York City business records trial for former president Donald Trump. On Thursday, X-rated actress Daniels appeared on the witness stand for a second round of legal briefings against the former president. ( CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP via Getty )
He showed images of several opinion pieces written by journalists on Thursday, including those by Wall Street Journal columnist Kimberly Strassel and legal luminaries Jonathan Turley and Alan Dershowitz.
” The articles are unbelievable, and I’d hand you the articles, but the problem is I’m not allowed to because if anything is mentioned against certain people, and you know who they are, certain people, anything’s even mentioned, he wants to put me in jail”, Trump said of Merchan.
” And that could happen one day, and I’d be very proud to go to jail for our Constitution, because what he’s doing is so unconstitutional”, he added.
The 45th president made the ostensible claim that “it’s a very dark day for our nation” by referring to it as “dark day for New York City, New York State.”
On Monday, Merchan found Trump in contempt for a tenth time. He also admitted he could be the next president, according to Breitbart News, and said he would consider jail time for the former president if he continued to violate the decree.
Trump on Friday also contended that the case ,” should n’t have been brought, but if it was going to be brought, it should have been brought seven years ago”.
” Remember, everybody turned it down. Southern District turned it down, Washington turned it down, the Federal Election Commission turned it down”, he added.
