The former president complained that his sentencing is set to take place days before the Republican National Convention
Donald Trump says he wants the Supreme Court to intervene in his upcoming sentencing on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.
“The ‘Sentencing’ for not having done anything wrong will be, conveniently for the Fascists, 4 days before the Republican National Convention,” Trump wrote Sunday night on Truth Social, complaining that Judge Juan Merchan was an “‘Acting’ Local Judge, appointed by the Democrats, who is HIGHLY CONFLICTED” to “make a decision which will determine the future of our Nation.”
“The United States Supreme Court MUST DECIDE!” Trump added in an appeal to the nation’s highest court.
Can someone please explain to me why he keeps saying the judge is conflicted?
Because the judge isn’t bending over backwards to accommodate Trump’s every whim. That’s literally it. If he was, he’d be the best, most honest and fair judge our country has ever seen.
The judge’s daughter is a Democrat whose worked for Democratic campaigns in the past. An appeals panel already weighed in on it though and said it didn’t amount to a conflict worthy of recusal.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/daughter-of-judge-trump-case-biden-harris-work/
Meanwhile, his classified documents case being handled by a judge he appointed to the court is somehow not a conflict.
It’s not about the daughter though. If it wasn’t the daughter he would’ve used some other excuse to complain. It’s more like the other answer, the judge doesn’t do what Trump wants, so Trump will complain endlessly.
Trump tried to manufacture conflict of interest. The best part was when he dogwhistled for his insane followers to go after the judge’s daughter.
He threatened the judge and his family, then used that as a basis for why he couldn’t be impartial. If that’s how the system worked then any defendant could get away with anything so long as they threaten the judge.
Oh yeah! The conflict of interest. I forgot that. I just kept thinking, " He’s not conflicted. He thinks you’re a piece of shit. We all do."
Because it is useful for him
It works in his favor to do so. If you think Trump ever thinks beyond that, you’d be wrong.