Judge in Trump case donated $15 to BIDEN

State Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan, who is presiding over former President Donald Trump’s hush case, has given President Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign a $15 donation.

That reports NBC News late on Wednesday that Merchan made a small dollar donation to the Democrat on July 26, 2020.

A day later, he gave two left-wing groups Stop Republicans and Progressive Turnout Project donations of $10 each.

While it’s not uncommon for judges to give money to political candidates, the revelations will help Trump characterize Merchan as a “Trump hater” — as Trump was up against Biden at the time of the donation — as he said Tuesday night at Mar-a did. -Lago after spending a day in the criminal court.

Trump’s attack on Merchan and his family – including a daughter who works in Democratic politics – has brought the judge under heightened protection.

Earlier this week This is reported by the New York Daily News that Mercan had received dozens of death threats since Trump’s very public trial.

During Tuesday’s trial, Merchan asked the former president and current presidential candidate to tone it down after encouraging supporters to “protest!” while the indictment hung over Trump’s head.

Instead, Trump returned to Mar-a-Lago and blasted Merchan and his wife and daughter at an event in the Florida estate’s ballroom surrounded by supporters and press.

“I have a Trump-hating judge, with a Trump-hating wife and family, whose daughter worked for Kamala Harris and now receives money from the Biden-Harris campaign and a lot of it,” Trump stormed from the podium at his Florida home and refuge.

Merchan’s daughter Loren, 34, is president and partner of a forward-thinking digital form called Authentic Campaigns, where she has worked for a number of Democratic causes and campaigns.

She was the digital director of Harris’s short-lived 2020 presidential bid.

Merchan was at the center of negotiations in 2021 that led to longtime Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg pleading guilty to charges that he skipped taxes because of large benefits he received from the company — such as apartments in Manhattan, a car and school fees .

On Friday, Trump stated on social media that Merchan “HATE ME” and is the same person who “urged” my 75-year-old former CFO, Weisselberg, to enter into a “plea deal.”

Weisselberg, who received a reduced sentence in exchange for testifying against the Trump Organization, is serving his five-month sentence at Rikers Island in Queens and is expected to be released on April 19.

After Weisselberg testified, Merchan said he was particularly struck by Weisselberg’s wife receiving a one-time payment of $6,000 from the company for a no-show job so she would qualify for Social Security, even though her husband earned lots of money.

“So many Americans work so hard in the hope that one day they will be able to benefit from their Social Security contributions,” the judge said.

Merchan said he would have imposed a “tougher sentence” had he not already agreed to the five-month plea deal.