Juan Merchan, the judge overseeing the Manhattan criminal case against former President Donald Trump appears to have donated at least $35 to Trump’s 2020 political opponents, according to a recent review of Federal Election Commission (FEC) records.
The FEC lists a $15 entry from a “Juan Merchan” in 2020 to “Biden for President”—Joe Biden’s official 2020 campaign.
Another FEC entry lists a $10 donation to the “Progressive Turnout Project”—an organization whose stated mission is to “rally Democrats to vote.”
A third FEC entry lists a $10 donation to “Stop Republicans”—a subsidiary of the Progressive Turnout Project that describes itself as a “grassroots-funded effort dedicated to resisting the Republican Party and Donald Trump’s radical right-wing legacy.”…