People posting Merchan wants a mistrial.
Then why hasn’t he deemed it so? He doesn’t need anything further to make that ruling. He would’ve been notifying both sides of his ruling to declare it a Mistrial.
This is his greatest achievement in his life by far, no way he undoes his perfect Trial and Verdict.
Yes, he could have made that ruling but he would have been totally trashed by his own side and he wanted this guilty verdict too. Only thing is that someone needs to take the blame other than himself for a mistrial.
After the verdict he found out what a giant mistake the whole sham show trial was. It only helped Trump more and turned off some important people on his own side.
A mistrial can stop things in it’s tracks for now with a promise of taking it up later and squash any appeals by Trump which we all know will be a huge admonishment of the sham of this show trial with a predetermined outcome.