Remember when the court system at least pretended to be objective? Remember a few months ago when liberals claimed that Clarence Thomas’ wife knowing conservative activists meant he had to recuse himself from everything?
Here in the real here and now, huge conflict of interest problems with the lawfare cases being waged against President Trump are being deliberately ignored in the headlong rush to convict Trump of something, anything, for any reason before November.
“Lara Merchan, the wife of the judge presiding over former President Donald Trump’s “hush money” case in Manhattan, once worked for New York Attorney General Letitia James, who brought the massive $350 million civil fraud case against the former president, with the revelation reviving claims of bias and calls for the judge’s recusal.”
Records reviewed by The Epoch Times show that Ms. Merchan worked for 21 years as a Special Assistant to the AG in New York, including three years under Ms. James. She changed jobs over two years ago.
Ms. James is a Democrat who fixated on President Trump as she campaigned for New York attorney general, calling him a “con man” and vowing to shine a “bright light into every dark corner of his real estate dealings.”
She began investigating the former president soon after taking office, eventually suing him for allegedly misleading banks and others about the value of his assets.
Ms. James eventually won the case on Feb. 16, with New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron ordering President Trump and Trump Organization executives to pay $350 million in damages, and barring the former president from doing business in the state for three years.
Judge Juan Merchan is presiding over a separate criminal trial involving President Trump in New York, in which the former president is accused of falsifying business records in order to conceal a $130,000 “hush money” payoff to an adult performer to stay quiet about their alleged affair.
But wait! Lara is not the only member of the Merchan family with a conflict of interest in the case.
The judge’s daughter, Loren Merchan, is president of Authentic Campaigns, a Chicago-based progressive political consulting firm whose top clients include Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), who was the lead prosecutor in Trump’s first impeachment trial, and the Senate Majority PAC, a major party fundraiser.
Authentic Campaigns, and thus the judge’s daughter, is actively making money from this sham attack against President Trump, rendering Judge Merchan conflicted out,” Trump spokesman Steven Cheung told The Post, adding that evidence of bias is even clearer now than it was in August when Merchan rejected Trump’s first recusal motion.
“The judge should do the right thing and immediately recuse himself in order to show the American people that the Democrats have not destroyed our justice system completely … him continuing to be involved in this Crooked Joe Biden-directed Witch Hunt is a complete violation of applicable rules, regulations and ethics.”
Evidently the family that TDSes together, stays together.
It’s conflicts of interest all the way down…
Tags: 2024 Presidential Race, Arthur Engoron, Democrats, Donald Trump, Elections, Juan Merchan, Lara Merchan, Lawsuit, Letitia James, Loren Merchan, New York City
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I’m willing to believe that someone with as many years of Trump in the New York real estate business has a level of corruption. But every damn time the progressives go after Trump, they can’t seem to find anyone to prosecute him or even accuse him of a crime that isn’t far more obviously corrupt. At this point, I think Stormy Daniels was a fraudulent hit job by Michael Avenatti, just like what he tried with Nike and Kavanaugh. At best, Michael Cohen seems lazy for just paying her. And if you can find the documents that Daniel’s initially produced that Trump never signed, that wouldn’t hold up in court, because the “amendment” document that reveals the names amends the wrong paragraph from the court documents.
Alas, that’s not even what this trial is about… it is supposedly wrong for Trump to claim on his taxes that he paid “legal fees”, when that is exactly how his lawyer presented the bill. If anyone believes the underlying charges, wouldn’t it be the lawyer who should be on trial?
I no longer care about the outcome of this trial, because Judge Merchan is so corrupt that I’m just assuming this is about trying to put Trump in jail before the election, and any excuse they think will sound plausible will do. The only real question is, will Merchan succeed at provocation? We can only hope things go like Engeron, and while preposterous, there is still some effort at sanity from higher courts.
I’m convinced that there are really only two answers to the conundrum: Either Trump is the most simon-pure real estate developer in the history of ever in New York State, or… He’s a stalking horse they’re not prosecuting for real offenses. Because, if they did go after him for real offenses, the prosecution/investigation would likely put rather more of “them” in jail than they’d like…
I’ve never liked Trump. I think he’s an egotistical blowhard, in a lot of ways. Used-car salesman personality, which has always resonated badly with me. I voted for him mostly as a vote against Hillary ™, with little hope for his actual time in office. His victory and conduct in office proved to be a pleasant surprise, but… I still have reservations about the man. Something about this whole deal with him even running seems like a put-up job; I don’t think he expected to win in 2016, and he sure as hell wasn’t prepared for that victory with a working cabinet to hit the ground running.
I still see no signs of him developing much of a plan for the second term other than “I win”. If we’re to wrest the ship of state from the shipwreck course they ‘ve got us on, whoever does it has to have a plan, and a working relationship with Congress. No sign of that developing, from what I see. So, yeah… I’ll vote for him again, but without much hope for it solving anything. It’s more like “clawing at the rim of the sinkhole as it collapses around us all”, at this point…
Holding Russia’s judicial system and processes up to America’s is sort of like the pot calling the kettle black.
Did Ms. Daniels pay income tax on that so-called hush money? If not, why not and why hasn’t she been charged with tax evasion? Also, sounds like she should be investigated for blackmail.