President-elect Trump raged Saturday against the Manhattan judge who oversaw his criminal trial, calling the jurist “corrupt” in a Truth Social post.
“I never falsified business records. It is a fake, made up charge by a corrupt judge who is just doing the work of the Biden/Harris Injustice Department, an attack on their political opponent,” Trump began in a post first targeting Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan.
“A legal expense was called, on the books, a legal expense. There was nothing else it could have been called. This was the so-called falsifying of records. I was hiding nothing, everything was out in the open for all to see.”
Trump was convicted in May of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in connection to hush-money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels.
Merchan, whose daughter is a prominent Democratic consultant, raised eyebrows this week after saying he would proceed with Trump’s sentencing just 10 days before his inauguration as president of the United States.
Trump also called out “another corrupt Judge (overturned 5 times on my case alone, & the most overturned judge in New York!) valued Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Florida, at $18,000,000, when it is worth 50 to 100 times that amount.”
He was referring to Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Arthur F. Engoron, who presided over Trump’s civil fraud trial in which he was ultimately ordered to pay half a billion dollars in fines. The case is currently being appealed.
Trump also apparently referred to writer E. Jean Carroll, calling her “the woman I never met,” who was awarded nearly $100 million in damages after accusing Trump of sexually assaulting her in a department store. Trump has vehemently denied the allegation.
Former special counsel “Deranged” Jack Smith — who probed Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents — also earned a shoutout.
“This is why people, and companies, are FLEEING New York – A corrupt court system,” Trump wrote. “The Biden/Harris DOJ was involved, directly or indirectly, in each of these cases.”
In a follow up post Trump added that “there has never been a President who was so evilly and illegally treated as I.”
