The readily apparent “conflict” of interest with the judge assigned to former President Donald Trump’s Manhattan business records case was called out by an expert to The Wall Street Journal.
The report drew rare praise from Trump, who has been increasingly critical of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp.-owned newspaper in recent weeks, Newsmax reports.
“This article, as written in The Wall Street Journal, is a truthful and very important one,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Sunday night. “The whole New York Judicial System is rigged against me, and everyone knows it.
Trump’s remarks came after former Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Christopher Brennan called out the assignment of New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan to many of the Trump-related cases as a “conflict” of interest, if not potential anti-Trump animus Trump has long rebuked.
As long as New York “justice” “system” keeps going after and harassing former President Trump, I feel perfectly safe living and conducting business here in in NYC.