Donald Trump cited numerous legal scholars in blasting Justice Juan Merchan for ruling he will be sentenced in the Stormy Daniels hush money case just 10 days before his inauguration.
Merchan said the Republican president-elect may appear for sentencing in New York on January 10 either in person or virtually.
While the judge said he is unlikely to jail Trump, 78, and could give him an “unconditional discharge” leaving him free of fines and probation, Trump was irate in a pair of posts to Truth Social Friday night.
He named ten legal analysts who he said called the “Witch Hunt” of a case “nonexistent” and then called it “nothing but a Rigged Charade.”
He then referred to “Acting” Justice Merchan as “a radical partisan” and called the sentencing decree “knowingly unlawful” and “against our Constitution.”
“If allowed to stand, [it] would be the end of the Presidency as we know it,” Trump added.