After becoming president, Donald Trump’s string of legal troubles appears to be all but behind him — but the president-elect has rejected the justice system he says was unfairly targeted against him after the New York judge overseeing his case overturned his conviction planned.
“There has never been a president who has been treated as poorly and illegally as I have been,” the president-elect said on Saturday as part of a series of social media posts. “Corrupt Democratic judges and prosecutors have gone against a political opponent of a president, ME, at a level of injustice never seen before.”
Trump’s flurry of posts came after Judge Juan Merchan declared on Friday that Trump will be sentenced on January 10 for his criminal hush-money conviction — but also predicted that the newly elected president, who will take the White House in about two weeks, will do so. not risk a prison sentence.
Trump was once the subject of four concurrent criminal cases, but those began to fall away after Trump’s decisive election victory in November, following a campaign based in part on the narrative that Trump had been the victim of “justice politics” by his Democratic political enemies . The New York hush-money case, for which a jury convicted Trump last year of 34 charges of falsifying business records, is the only one to retain a criminal conviction on his record.
Still, Trump claimed Saturday that he has “never falsified business records,” calling the case “a false, trumped-up indictment by a corrupt judge who is only doing the job of the Biden/Harris Injustice Department, an attack on their political opponent.” ME!”
He added that Merchan “should be expelled!”
The president-elect also blasted New York’s legal system as “corrupt” and said the “crooked” courts are “the reason why people and businesses are fleeing his home state.”
A New York-based appeals court on Monday upheld a $5 million civil judgment against Trump over sexual abuse and defamation claims filed by E. Jean Carroll, writing in a 77-page opinion that “[T]The jury could reasonably conclude … that Mr. Trump engaged in similar behavior with other women — a pattern of abrupt, non-consensual and physical advances against women he barely knew.
“The woman I’ve never met (celebrity photo lines from 30 years ago don’t count!), who got almost $100,000,000,” Trump said on Saturday about Carroll, who was awarded 83.3 million by a jury dollar because of defamatory comments he made about her. He called the judge presiding over the case, Lewis Kaplan, “a completely out of control, Trump-hating judge.”
“Corrupt judges, or judges so blinded by their hatred of me and my political ideology of ‘MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN’, are making a mockery of the United States judicial system, and the world watches in disgust,” Trump said .
The president-elect has pledged to overhaul the Justice Department, one of the three pillars of the government’s so-called “deep state.” Trump and his supporters claim they are maneuvering clandestinely to suppress his agenda. He tapped former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi to lead the agency, which will be essential as Trump tries to implement the sweeping policies he implemented, including mass deportations.
