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Judge Merchan gags President Trump and his defense lawyers, but not Michael Cohen and the prosecution: What explains his willing destruction of his own reputation as a judge?
American Thinker ^ | 05/21/2024 | Jack Hellner

Posted on 05/21/2024 8:13:31 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Judge Juan Merchan gagged President Trump and his lawyers, but doesn’t gag Micheal Cohen or the prosecution. Merchan doesn’t care that the prosecution hasn’t actually shown a crime that segues to a supposed bookkeeping violation.

The judge won’t allow an expert defense witness who would testify that there was clearly no campaign finance violation that would allow the prosecution to go back to the supposed hush money expenses.

The judge doesn’t care that state courts have no jurisdiction over federal election laws.

The judge doesn’t care how much Cohen lies on the stand. He doesn’t even care that Cohen is an admitted thief.

But, this same judge gets extremely mad when a defense witness bucks the tyranny and fails to properly bow; from Yahoo News:

Defense witness who angered the judge in Trump’s hush money trial will return to the stand

A defense witness in Donald Trump’s hush money case whom the judge threatened to remove from the trial over his behavior will return to the stand Tuesday as the trial nears its end.

Trump’s lawyers are hoping Robert Costello’s testimony will help undermine the credibility of a key prosecution witness, Trump fixer-turned-foe Michael Cohen.

But Costello angered Judge Juan Merchan on Monday by making comments under his breath, rolling his eyes and calling the whole exercise ‘ridiculous,’ prompting the judge to briefly kick reporters out of the courtroom to admonish him.

The judge told Costello, a former federal prosecutor, he was being ‘contemptuous,’ adding, ‘If you try to stare me down one more time, I will remove you from the stand,’ according to a court transcript.

Merchan threatened Costello with contempt, all because he treats this sham of a trial like a joke;

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: gagorder; hushmoney; judgemerchan
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1 posted on 05/21/2024 8:13:31 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

$$$


2 posted on 05/21/2024 8:15:37 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: SeekAndFind

Possible date with stormy?


3 posted on 05/21/2024 8:16:04 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: rktman

RE: Possible date with stormy?

You mean there are no desirable women in NY anymore? :)


4 posted on 05/21/2024 8:17:08 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

The Mexican “judge” goes loco on one of the best known attorneys in NY.

Guess he’s feeling the heat. Might end up missing that big payday if he lets Costello talk.


5 posted on 05/21/2024 8:17:08 AM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: SeekAndFind

Destruction? The author must not be paying attention. This will be a career enhancement among progressives.


6 posted on 05/21/2024 8:17:16 AM PDT by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The difference between the political left and right is that the left believe that the end justifies the mean.

They don’t care about anything except the agenda


7 posted on 05/21/2024 8:17:24 AM PDT by Fai Mao ( Starve the Beast and steal its food.)
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To: SeekAndFind
‘If you try to stare me down one more time, I will remove you from the stand,’

"Judge" Merchandise is doing wrong, he knows that he's doing wrong, he willfully chooses to do wrong, and he is showing clear evidence of a guilty conscience.

8 posted on 05/21/2024 8:18:45 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: SeekAndFind

He doesn’t care if his reputation is ruined. Leftists

sometimes happily turn themselves into sacrificial lambs.

Besides, he’s probably got a huge bank account.


9 posted on 05/21/2024 8:19:53 AM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: brownsfan
Destruction? The author must not be paying attention. This will be a career enhancement among progressives.

Exactly so.

10 posted on 05/21/2024 8:21:21 AM PDT by marktwain (The Republic is at risk. Resistance to the Democratic Party is Resistance to Tyranny. )
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To: SeekAndFind

In Nazi Germany:

People’s Court judge Roland Freisler didn’t allow the Defendant to actually have any defense.

Why waste time with things that didn’t matter?
So, here we are.

posted on 5/20/2024, 4:01:00 PM by ClearCase_guy


11 posted on 05/21/2024 8:21:35 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (“If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it!” )
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To: SeekAndFind

He is lefty Dem and politics are their God or at least religion, they put lefty poltics above all else, not facts nor truth . He will be celebrated by other lefties


12 posted on 05/21/2024 8:21:36 AM PDT by TECTopcat
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To: SeekAndFind
What explains his willing destruction of his own reputation as a judge?

Blind irrational hate.

13 posted on 05/21/2024 8:24:07 AM PDT by null and void (Everyone on all sides a conflict will be happy to lie to you, except our side, of course!)
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To: SeekAndFind

He has been guaranteed a lucrative position, just like any other traitorous Arshole.


14 posted on 05/21/2024 8:26:20 AM PDT by bobbo666 (Baizuo, )
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CNN primetime. Madcow hands under the table. Sorry upfront.


15 posted on 05/21/2024 8:33:04 AM PDT by sasquatch (Do NOT forget Ashli Babbit! c/o piytar)
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To: SeekAndFind

bkmk


16 posted on 05/21/2024 8:34:16 AM PDT by sauropod ("This is a time when people reveal themselves for who they are." James O'Keefe Ne supra crepidam)
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To: SeekAndFind

All for the cause. He earns his radical points cred for cocktail parties.


17 posted on 05/21/2024 8:34:56 AM PDT by TiGuy22
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To: SeekAndFind

Merchan will be set for life after trials delays..


18 posted on 05/21/2024 8:40:52 AM PDT by chopperk
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To: SeekAndFind
Could it be 💰💵💰💵💰?
19 posted on 05/21/2024 8:40:53 AM PDT by Pajamajan (Pray for our nation. Never be a peaceful slave in a new Socialist America..)
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To: Fai Mao
The difference between the political left and right is that the left believe that the end justifies the mean.

And in reality, the means always determine the end.

20 posted on 05/21/2024 8:42:27 AM PDT by Prince Caspian
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