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President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday fumed over Judge Juan Merchan’s refusal to toss Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s case against him in light of the Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity.
Trump was convicted earlier this year on 34 counts of falsifying business records in connection with a 2016 payment his then-attorney, Michael Cohen, made to Stormy Daniels. Merchan on Monday rejected Trump’s bid to toss the case, saying that it related “entirely to unofficial conduct entitled to no immunity protections.”
“In a completely illegal, psychotic order, the deeply conflicted, corrupt, biased, and incompetent Acting Justice Juan Merchan has completely disrespected the United States Supreme Court, and its Historic Decision on Immunity,” Trump posted. “But even without Immunity, this illegitimate case is nothing but a Rigged Hoax.”
“Merchan, who is a radical partisan, wrote an opinion that is knowingly unlawful, goes against our Constitution, and, if allowed to stand, would be the end of the Presidency as we know it. Merchan has so little respect for the Constitution that he is keeping in place an illegal gag order on me, your President and President-Elect, just so I cannot expose his and his family’s disqualifying and illegal conflicts….” he added.
The Supreme Court determined earlier this year that a president enjoys absolute immunity for constitutional acts and presumptive immunity for official ones.