Trump Says Supreme Court Should Bail Him Out of Criminal Conviction

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Trump Says Supreme Court Should Bail Him Out of Criminal Conviction
rollingstone.com

The former president complained that his sentencing is set to take place days before the Republican National Convention

Donald Trump says he wants the Supreme Court to intervene in his upcoming sentencing on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. 

“The ‘Sentencing’ for not having done anything wrong will be, conveniently for the Fascists, 4 days before the Republican National Convention,” Trump wrote Sunday night on Truth Social, complaining that Judge Juan Merchan was an “‘Acting’ Local Judge, appointed by the Democrats, who is HIGHLY CONFLICTED” to “make a decision which will determine the future of our Nation.”  

“The United States Supreme Court MUST DECIDE!” Trump added in an appeal to the nation’s highest court.

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The judge's daughter is a Democrat whose worked for Democratic campaigns in the past. An appeals panel already weighed in on it though and said it didn't amount to a conflict worthy of recusal.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/daughter-of-judge-trump-case-biden-harris-work/

Meanwhile, his classified documents case being handled by a judge he appointed to the court is somehow not a conflict.

It's not about the daughter though. If it wasn't the daughter he would've used some other excuse to complain. It's more like the other answer, the judge doesn't do what Trump wants, so Trump will complain endlessly.