Trump Lashes Out At Judge As Fox News Reporter Breaks News To Him That Supreme Court Denied Plea To Block Sentencing

President-elect Donald Trump lashed out at Judge Juan Merchan after Fox News reporter Peter Doocy broke the news to him that the Supreme Court denied his motion to block the criminal sentencing scheduled for Friday.

Hours before Trump was scheduled to be sentenced on Nov. 26 for the 34 felony counts he was found guilty of in the Stormy Daniels hush money election interference trial, the Supreme Court voted 5-4 to deny Trump’s emergency petition.

Doocy was the TV pool reporter on hand as Trump spoke ahead of a meeting with Republican governors at Mar-a-Lago, and got Trump’s reaction moments after the decision was announced:

PETER DOOCY: President Trump, just a few minutes ago, the Supreme Court ruled that they are not going to slow down the sentencing. It’s on for tomorrow. Now what?

PRESIDENT-ELECT TRUMP: Well, they called for an appeal. And as you know, they acknowledge what the judge said about no penalty.

And there is really, there’s no penalty. But we’re going to appeal anyway just psychologically, because, frankly, it’s a disgrace. It’s a judge that shouldn’t have been on the case. He’s a highly conflicted judge.

And and they called for an appeal. So I read it and I thought it was a fair decision, actually. So I’ll do my little thing tomorrow. They can have fun with their political opponent.

As you know, I’m under a gag order from a judge. This is a first. This was an attack of a political opponent. And if you take a look at it, I’m not supposed to be talking about it, so I won’t. I’m the first president and probably one of the first candidates in history that’s under attack with a gag order where I’m not allowed to speak about something.

And they ought to find out what that’s all about. And this is a long way from finished. And I respect the court’s opinion. It was a I think it was actually a very good opinion for us because you saw what they said.

But they invited the appeal and the appeal is on the bigger issue. So we’ll see how it all works out. I think it’s going to work out well.

Watch above via C-SPAN.

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