Former President Donald Trump ripped the judge in his hush money trial for rejecting his requests to attend his son Barron’s high school graduation next month and a January 6 hearing in the U.S. Supreme Court next week.
Trump criticized Judge Juan M. Merchan at the end of his first day in court for the alleged hush money payments he made to cover up his extramarital affairs ahead of the 2016 presidential election.
“We’ve got a real problem with this judge and a real problem with a lot of things having to do with this trial,” Trump told reporters.
“That I can’t go to my son’s graduation, that I can’t go to the U.S. Supreme Court, that I’m not in Georgia or Florida or North Carolina campaigning like I should be…it’s perfect for the radical-left Democrats.”
“That’s exactly what they want. This is about election interference, that’s all it’s about.”
