Trump blasts NY judges after Jan. 10 hush money sentencing date announced

Never one to hold his tongue when he believes an injustice is at play, President-elect Donald Trump weighed in over the weekend on the actions of an especially vexatious New York judge.

Responding to the news that Judge Juan Merchan had denied his request to have his hush money convictions tossed and had scheduled sentencing in the case for Jan. 10, Trump lashed out on Truth Social against the man he described as “corrupt,” as the New York Post reports.

Merchan issues order

It was last week that Merchan issued an order stating his belief that there is “no legal impediment” to proceeding with sentencing in the case involving payments to adult entertainer Stormy Daniels/

“This Court has painstakingly considered the respective arguments of the parties and finds that setting aside the jury verdict is not the best or only way to reconcile the competing interests,” including those stemming from Trump's imminent ascension to the presidency,” Merchan explained.

Considering that in the wake of his Nov. 5 election win, most of Trump's legal problems have gone away, it is not a surprise that the seeming resurrection of the New York hush money headache prompted a scathing response from the president-elect.

“I never falsified business records. It is a fake, made up charge by a corrupt judge who is just doing the work of the Biden/Harris Injustice Department, an attack on their political opponent,” Trump wrote on his social media platform.

He continued, “A legal expense was called, on the books, a legal expense. There was nothing else it could have been called. This was the so-called falsifying of records. I was hiding nothing, everything was out in the open for all to see.”

Multiple targets hit

Trump did not limit his critique of the New York justice system to Merchan alone, as his online commentary extended to the judges involved in some of his other recent legal entanglements.

Referencing Judge Arthur Engoron, who presided over Trump's civil fraud cases involving real estate valuations, Trump blasted “another corrupt Judge (overturned 5 times on my case alone, & the most overturned judge in New York!) valued Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Florida, at $18,000, when it is worth 50 to 100 times that amount.”

Turning next to civil verdicts won against him by writer E. Jean Carroll, Trump slammed the fact that he is liable for millions, payable to “the women I never met” who accused him of a decades-old sexual assault and subsequent defamation.

“This is why people, and companies, are FLEEING to New York – A corrupt court system,” Trump raged, adding, “The Biden/Harris DOJ was involved, directly or indirectly, in each of these cases.

Not wanting to leave anyone out, Trump ended his monologue by throwing in a mention of his now-vanquished federal nemesis, special counsel Jack Smith, to whom the president-elect referred as “deranged.”