Judge Overseeing Trump’s Hush Money Case Donated To Biden Campaign

During the 2020 election, the New York judge in charge of the former president Donald Trump‘s’s Manhattan trial gave to his opponent, President Joe Biden.

Federal Election Commission records show that Judge Juan Merchan gave $35 to Democratic causes in 2020, including $15 that went to Biden’s campaign and $10 that went to a leftist group focused on “resisting … Donald Trump’s radical right-wing legacy,” The New York Post reported. The donations have caused even Left-leaning legal analysts to question the ethical implications of Merchan’s Democratic contributions. 

“While the amounts here are minimal, it’s surprising that a sitting judge would make political donations of any size to a partisan candidate or cause,” said Elie Honig, a former federal prosecutor who is now CNN’s senior legal analyst.

Merchan has been referred to by the former president as a” Trump-hating judge” who was” hand-selected” by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. The Trump Organization was found guilty on 17 matters, including those of crime and falsifying company information, earlier this year by the same prosecutor who presided over the situation.

Trump has also accused Merchan of being politically biased by pointing to the judge’s daughter Loren Merchan, whose firm has done work for the campaigns of top Democrats, including Vice President Kamala Harris and Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA).

Trump was the first former president to become charged with a crime after being detained on Tuesday and accused of 34 misdemeanor counts of falsifying market information for his alleged hush cash payment to Stormy Daniels during the 2016 presidential campaign. He entered a not guilty plea to every accusation leveled against him, and his next court appearance isn’t until December 4.

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Critics criticized Bragg for putting together a bad case against the former Republican leader to make political positions after Trump’s’s prosecution was revealed following his trial. Prosecutors may show that Trump’s’s alleged falsification of business information, which is a misdemeanor, occurred while another crime was being committed in order for Trump to be found guilty of the criminal. However, according to legal experts, The Daily Wire previously reported that the indictment offers little to no explanation for the other violence.