Trump Attacks Judge Merchan Just Before Closing Arguments: ‘UNAMERICAN AND UNCONSTITUTIONAL’

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Former President Donald Trump took a curious approach to preparing for closing arguments in his hush money-election interference trial: he attacked Judge Juan Merchan.

Late Sunday evening, just days before the final days before his trial is set to resume, Trump returned to social media to launch yet another in what seems an endless series of unhinged and baseless rants attacking Judge Merchan. Trump wrote on Truth Social:

The reason the Radical, highly Conflicted Judge Juan Merchan had to come up with three FAKE options for the jury to choose from, without requiring them to be unanimous, which is completely UNAMERICAN AND UNCONSTITUTIONAL, is because the Corrupt, Soros backed D.A., Alvin Bragg, couldn’t come close to proving that any crime was committed. THERE WAS NO CRIME. Legal Expense paid to a lawyer was marked, by a bookkeeper using a dropdown menu in a computer program, as Legal Expense paid to a lawyer. WHAT ELSE COULD YOU CALL IT? There is NO CASE, just a Democrat Persecutor controlled by Crooked Joe Biden’s White House, a Democrat Judge, and a biased venue. This is nothing but an Election Interfering Witch Hunt, and the American People know it! MAGA2024.

Trump appeared to take issue with how the jury has been advised, blasting Merchan for “three FAKE options for the jury to choose from, without requiring them to be unanimous, which is completely UNAMERICAN AND UNCONSTITUTIONAL.”

Trump also complained that the jury in his trial was given a seven-day break without being sequestered from outside influences:

Can anyone believe that Soros backed D.A., Alvin Bragg, was able to get a DELAY of 7 days to his Corrupt and Unconstitutional Case against me, with no sequester? Legal Expense = Legal Expense! The only thing Bragg has going for him is the Corrupt and highly Conflicted Judge – Which is a lot!!!

Trump previously raised eyebrows by criticizing where Merchan is from. During a post-trial press event, Trump urged those watching to “take a look at where” the Colombia-born Merchan “comes from.”