Trump demands Stormy Daniels hush money case is moved to Staten Island hours before arraignment: Says Manhattan voted ‘1% Republican’ and tears into ‘Trump-hater’ judge whose daughter ‘worked for Kamala’
- Donald Trump wants the hush money payment case moved to the more Republican-friendly New York City borough of Staten Island
- Claimed the judge is a ‘Trump hater’ and said moving the case would make it more ‘fair’ – noting the judge’s daughter Loren Merchan worked for Kamala
- Comes just before ex-president is formally arraigned in Manhattan Tuesday
Donald Trump demanded the Stormy Daniels hush money case be moved from Manhattan to the more Republican-friendly Staten Island just hours before his historic arraignment.
The former president tore into the judge’s supposed anti-Trump sentiment on Truth Social and said the new location would be ‘very fair and secure’, as protesters and the world’s media swarmed the Manhattan court where he will turn himself in this afternoon.
He also noted that the Judge Juan Merchan’s daughter, Loren Merchan, 34, worked for Vice President Kamala Harris’ 2020 presidential campaign, deepening the alleged bias against him.
Trump, who continues to surge in polls ahead of the formal charges Tuesday, will be escorted throughout the entire arraignment process by his Secret Service detail.
Donald Trump demanded in a Truth Social post on Tuesday morning that the Stormy Daniels hush money case be moved from ‘unfair’ Manhattan to the more Republican-friendly borough of Staten Island
Trump called the proceedings a ‘kangaroo court’ in a post shortly before his arraignment at the Manhattan Criminal Court on Tuesday morning
Meanwhile, both supporters and opposers gathered outside the courthouse Tuesday to demonstrate.
The Tuesday morning post continued with the former chief executive claiming the judge in the Stormy Daniels’ hush money case is a ‘Trump hater’ with bias against him.
The former president arrived at Trump Tower in Manhattan on Monday ahead of being formally charged in court on Tuesday.
Following the arraignment, Trump will immediately go back to his estate at Mar-a-Lago and deliver remarks from his Palm Beach, Florida club.
The former president is expected to leave Trump Tower for the downtown courthouse Monday mor ning, flanked by a Secret Service and NYPD motorcade that will trigger rolling road closures.
Trump’s campaign spent the last moments up until him arriving at the courthouse Tuesday morning by pushing out a fundraising email after raising an astounding $8 million in the four days after his indictment was announced.
The final push for contributions before Trump was officially charged was labeled: ‘My last email before my arrest.’
‘Our movement has overcome so much,’ the email noted. ‘And there is no doubt in my mind that we will prevail once again and WIN the White House in 2024.’
There is a button for supporters to donate to the campaign claiming that money given now has a ‘1,500% impact’ than sending in oney at other times.
Judge Juan Merchan (left) and his 34-year-old daughter, Loren Merchan (right)
Trump lamented the judge in the case is a bias ‘Trump hater’ whose daughter ‘works for Kamala’. Pictured is a courtroom sketch of Judge Merchan on November 15, 2022 hearing the case Trump is being arraigned for now
A picture from Loren Merchan’s Facebook shows her enjoying a glass of wine in a shirt for Kamala Harris’ 2020 presidential run, which she worked with as digital director
The Truth Social post Tuesday morning laments: ‘VERY UNFAIR VENUE, WITH SOME AREAS THAT VOTED 1% REPUBLICAN. THIS CASE SHOULD BE MOVED TO NEARBY STATEN ISLAND – WOULD BE A VERY FAIR AND SECURE LOCATION FOR THE TRIAL.’
‘ADDITIONALLY, THE HIGHLY PARTISAN JUDGE & HIS FAMILY ARE WELL KNOWN TRUMP HATERS,’ the ex-president added. ‘HE WAS AN UNFAIR DISASTER ON A PREVIOUS TRUMP RELATED CASE, WOULDN’T RECUSE, GAVE HORRIBLE JURY INSTRUCTIONS, & IMPOSSIBLE TO DEAL WITH DURING THE WITCH HUNT TRIAL. HIS DAUGHTER WORKED FOR ‘KAMALA’ & NOW THE BIDEN-HARRIS CAMPAIGN.’
‘KANGAROO COURT!!!’ he concluded.
Judge Merchan’s daughter Loren worked as the director of digital for Harris’ 2020 presidential campaign. She was with the campaign from February 2019 until December of the same year.
Loren Merchan concluded her work with the campaign to move to fill the same role at Authentic, a digital strategies firm for progressives. She climbed the ladder over five years at the firm and is now Partner, president and COO of Authentic Campaigns.
At the courthouse in Manhattan, journalists from around the world lined up through the night Monday into Tuesday to ensure their space in the courtroom.
Trump posted Tuesday morning, again writing in all caps, that Democrats have ‘criminalized the justice system,’ as his defenders repeatedly claim that the Manhattan case against him is ‘politically driven.’
‘THIS IS NOT WHAT AMERICA WAS SUPPOSED TO BE!’ Trump wrote on his social media platform.
Protesters on both sides descended on the criminal court building and were separated by NYPD barricades just after dawn.
Protesters clashing outside of the criminal courthouse in New York City on Tuesday April 4th, 2023 as one pro-Trump demonstrator threw herself at an anti-Trump banner and began biting and tearing at it
Trump accused Democrats of criminalizing the U.S. justice system as Republicans and his supporters say the case is an example of liberals using the court system for political purposes
Chaos ensued early as demonstrators on opposing sides clashed, with one Trump fan throwing herself at an anti-Trump banner and attempted to rip it up.
‘You’re on the wrong side!’ yelled the anti-Trump crowd, grabbing at the flag that the woman was trying to remove in a clumsy tug of war.
Trump, more than a week before he was indicted, told his supporters to ‘protest, protest, protest,’ and warned a few days later of ‘death & destruction’ if he were charged.
The case in Manhattan stems from a $130,000 payment to porn star Stormy Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, from Trump’s ‘fixer’ and attorney at the time Michael Cohen.
Trump maintains that he never had a sexual relationship with Daniels and was not aware that the payment to Cohen for legal fees was actually a hush money payment to keep the porn star quiet during the 2016 election.
The charges are attempting to bring the payment from a potential misdemeanor to a felony charge for alleged violations of fraud-related campaign finance laws.
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