Judge overseeing Trump’s Stormy Daniels case has received DEATH threats
Judge overseeing Trump’s Stormy Daniels case has received multiple DEATH THREATS since his arraignment and NYPD stepped up security after ex-President assaulted his wife and daughter
- New York judge overseeing former President Donald Trump’s hush-hush trial has received dozens of death threats
- State Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan has received numerous threats to his phone and email account
- Trump targeted Merchan and his family during his speech at Mar-a-Lago Tuesday night and on Truth Social
The New York judge overseeing former President Donald Trump’s hush money case has received dozens of death threats since the former president made him and his family political targets.
This is reported by the New York Daily News According to a source familiar with the situation, state Supreme Court justice Judge Juan Merchan received numerous threats to his phone and email account on Thursday.
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.
New York judge Juan Merchan has received dozens of death threats since the ex-president made him and his family political targets
“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.”
Merchan’s 34-year-old daughter, Loren (right), works for consulting firm Authentic Campaigns, whose former clients include Vice President Kamala Harris, the Biden-Harris campaign, California Governor Gavin Newsom and California Representative Adam Schiff
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.