Judge Juan Merchan donated to Democratic causes in 2020, including to President Biden’s campaign and a group dedicated to “resisting … Donald Trump’s radical right-wing legacy.”
is a subsidiary of the Progressive Turnout Project and describes itself as “a grassroots-funded effort dedicated to resisting the Republican Party and Donald Trump’s radical right-wing legacy.”
Judge Juan Merchan, the jurist overseeing Trump’s criminal case, had donated to Biden’s 2020 campaign.Trump, 76, has railed against Merchan since his indictment, deriding him as “Trump-hating judge.” Trump, who appeared in court on Tuesday, has been outspoken about Merchan as a a Trump hater hand-picked by DA Alvin Bragg.Trump added that Merchan “is the same person who ‘railroaded’ my 75-year-old former CFO, Allen Weisselberg, to take a ‘plea’ deal.Weisselberg, the former Trump Organization CFO, is serving time on Rikers Island after pleading guilty to a slew of tax fraud charges. at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, on Tuesday, Trump went after Merchan’s family as well.
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