Manhattan prosecutors say neither Donald Trump nor his lawyers have shown any evidence to support their claims that the judge in the former president’s hush-money criminal case has an anti-Trump bias.
FILE - Former President Donald Trump sits at the defense table with his legal team in a Manhattan court, Tuesday, April 4, 2023, in New York. Trump's lawyers are demanding that the judge in his New York City criminal case step aside, echoing the former president's complaints that he's"a Trump hating-judge" with a family full of"Trump haters.
Matthew Colangelo, a senior counsel to District Attorney Alvin Bragg, agreed that neither issue was grounds for Merchan to step aside. He painted Trump’s recusal motion as the latest in his “prolific history of baselessly accusing state and federal judges around the country of bias.” Prosecutors also responded Tuesday to attempts by Trump’s lawyers to fight a pair of subpoenas, including a request to writer E. Jean Carroll’s lawyers for the full contents of a deposition Trump gave in connection with a lawsuit that resulted in a $5 million sexual abuse and defamation judgment against him.
In defending Merchan, Colangelo wrote that recusal is only required by state law when there’s “a direct, personal, substantial or pecuniary interest in reaching a particular conclusion," Colangelo wrote. That provision doesn’t extend to Merchan’s daughter working for Trump’s political foes, he argued.
Merchan signed off on a deal that required ex-CFO Allen Weisselberg testify against Trump’s company in exchange for a five-month jail sentence. That testimony ultimately helped prosecutors convict the Trump Organization of tax fraud, but the way Trump's lawyers described Merchan’s involvement in the negotiations was"factually incorrect."
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