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Podcast: Townhall Review | Commentaries
Episode: Hugh Hewitt: Judge Merchan’s Partisan Disguise on Full Display
Description: Here’s the number one reason Trump should win on appeal:  Juan Merchan, he’s the New York Manhattan trial judge who presided over the hush money trial of former president Donald Trump. The trial that returned 34 felony convictions. Merchan ought never to have accepted the case in the first place.  Why: Because Merchan had made contributions to President Biden’s reelection campaign and to two anti-Republican and anti-Trump political action committees—something New York law absolutely prohibits. They were small, a total of thirty-five dollars, and they were illegal. One dollar, a million dolla...