Former President Donald Trump spoke to the press after the first day of the Stormy Daniels ‘hush money’ trial in New York Monday, criticizing the judge for potentially causing him to miss his youngest son, Barron’s high school graduation.
When Trump asked Judge Juan Merchan if he could skip the trial on Wednesday for Barron’s graduation, he reportedly said that the decision “really depends on if we are on time and where we are in the trial.”
“As you know, my son is graduating from high school, and it looks like the judge will not let me go through the graduation of my son, who’s worked very, very hard. He’s a great student. We’re very proud of the fact that he did so well,” Trump told the press.
“And he was looking forward for years to have this graduation with his mother and father there. It looks like the judges are not going to allow me to escape this scam. It’s a scam trial.”
“If you read all of the legal pundits, all of the legal scholars today, there’s not one that I see that said this is a case that should be brought or tried. It’s a scam. It’s a political witch hunt. It continues It continues forever. And we’re not going to be given a fair trial. It’s a very, very sad thing,” the former president continued.
Trump went on to say that there is a “real problem” with the judge.
“He’s a very conflicted judge, and he’s not going to allow us to go to that. He won’t allow me to leave here for a half a day, go to DC, and go before the United States Supreme Court because he thinks he’s superior, I guess, than the Supreme Court. We got a real problem with this judge. We have a real problem with a lot of things having to do with this trial, including the DA, because you go right outside and people are being muffled and killed all day long. He’s sitting here all day with 10 or 12 prosecutors over nothing, over what people say shouldn’t be a trial.”
