Trump flips out on Judge Merchan during break in Hope Hicks testimony

During the lunch break that interrupted testimony by former White House aide Hope Hicks, Donald Trump launched into a full-throated tirade aimed at Judge Juan Merchan — and declared the Manhattan hush money trial is "an insult to American justice!"

Bypassing waiting reporters, the former president took to his Truth Social platform to hammer out an all-caps attack on the hush money trial by repeating the usual assortment of complaints that he is being subjected to a "witch hunt."

The embattled former president wrote, "THIS ISN’T A TRIAL, IT’S A POLITICAL CAMPAIGN, A WITCH HUNT, JUST LIKE THE HIGHLY CONFLICTED AND BIASED JUDGE, JUAN MERCHAN, WANTED IT TO BE. I’M SURE HIS POLITICAL FRIENDS AND ALLIES, AND CROOKED JOE BIDEN, IN PARTICULAR, WILL BE THRILLED THAT THEY ARE GETTING AWAY WITH THIS CORRUPT, “ANCIENT,” AND HIGHLY POLITICAL ATTACK ON HIS 2024 PRESIDENTIAL OPPONENT."

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Continuing in that vein, he added, "THESE EIGHT YEAR OLD STORIES, WHICH CAME OUT PRIOR TO THE 2016 ELECTION (THE VOTERS HAVE ALREADY, AND LOUDLY, SPOKEN!), AND HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS FAKE CASE, BROUGHT BY A CROOKED, SOROS BACKED NEW YORK CITY D.A., ALVIN BRAGG, SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ALLOWED TO BE USED. VIRTUALLY EVERY LEGAL SCHOLAR AND EXPERT CALL IT A SHAM AND DISGRACE, ELECTION INTERFERENCE."

"IT IS AN INSULT TO AMERICAN JUSTICE!" he concluded.