FNC’s Turley: Judge Merchan ‘Lost
Control of His Courtroom’ During Stormy
Daniels Testimony
Breitbart Clips,
by
Pam Key
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
5/8/2024 5:50:00 AM
Fox News legal analyst Jonathan Turley said Tuesday on Fox News Channel’s America Reports that Judge Juan Merchan lost control of the courtroom during Stormy Daniels testimony at former President Donald Trump’s New York business records trial.
Turley said:
You know, the statement of the judge, that he’s surprised there isn’t a higher number of objections from the defense is baffling. The defense objected to putting her on the stand. They then objected to the scope of the questioning, and now the judge sounds like Claude Rains saying I’m shocked, shocked there’s a porn star in my courtroom.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
singermom9 5/8/2024 6:03:49 AM (No. 1714064)
OK. So what. Is there NO ONE above this guy? If he can do this to Trump he can do it to us all.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Rinktum 5/8/2024 6:04:32 AM (No. 1714065)
This trial is a perfect example of how incompetency runs rabid in the democrat party. A Municipal Traffic Court Judge runs a tighter ship that than Merchan. He is in over his head and causes you wonder just how he achieved his position. He was born in Bogota, Columbia and now sits as a Judge in the U S. I realize immigrants can achieve great things but I think maybe placing them on the bench may be something we need to rethink. Clearly, the caliber of the judiciary has gone down in the past few decades. We need judges who are knowledgeable on the law and constitution, have a strong moral compass, are born in this country, and understand their politics must be left at the door of the Courtroom. This guy seems to fail in all those areas.
104 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
Krause 5/8/2024 6:21:23 AM (No. 1714070)
Merchan is not a real judge in this case. He’s a tool in a scheme. Just like Clifford is a tool in a scheme. Unfortunately, there will be books written about this scheme, and Merchan’s part in it will be disgusting, for all to see.
52 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
privateer 5/8/2024 6:50:28 AM (No. 1714080)
Grand Weasel of the Clueless Clucks Clan.
31 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
Lazyman 5/8/2024 6:52:18 AM (No. 1714081)
A judge from a law and order nation like Columbia. Who would think he honors "due process".
42 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 5/8/2024 6:56:20 AM (No. 1714085)
Another foreign-born Judge, appointed by the Democrats to introduce Socialist ideology to the American courtroom.
52 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
Strike3 5/8/2024 7:02:54 AM (No. 1714091)
Besides being completely irrelevant to their made-up case, the Stormy Daniels sideshow actually helped Trump by highlighting the Merchan farce. The court jester is trying to kill the king and will taste the big broadsword when the serious incompetence nullifies his efforts. Even hand-picked plants can see what is going on.
27 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
chumley 5/8/2024 7:18:01 AM (No. 1714101)
I guess when a judge accepts that first bribe they pretty much own him. He has to do what the checkbook people say. I guess the shame of being corrupt will pass with time, while his lucrative retirement income will remain.
23 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
Venturer 5/8/2024 7:19:54 AM (No. 1714103)
This judge called a federal agent who was to testify about the reason the feds did not charge Trump irrelevant.
But then he allows this whore who has lied, who has said it didn't happen, who has tried blackmail and who has nothing to do with the charge against Trump to testify.
How much worse does it have to get before some real legal authority can do something about this farce.
63 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 5/8/2024 7:26:03 AM (No. 1714110)
The pipsqueak judge didn't lose control. He allowed statements in his courtroom that have nothing to do with case to plant seeds in the minds of the jury that Orange Man Bad. He's doing everything he can to get a conviction. That's all he's there for. A conviction. That way, Biden and the press can pound "Trump's a convicted felon !!!" all the way up to election day. The biggest two benefits from that is, of course, labeling Trump as a felon, but it also gets Biden out of debating where he'd be destroyed. His campaign can simply say "we don't deal with felons". It won't matter if this is overturned on appeal because that won't happen until after the election.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
skacmar 5/8/2024 7:50:21 AM (No. 1714131)
Merchan didn't lose control. He purposely let go of the wheel causing a crash. He accomplished what both he and the prosecution wanted: a total smear of Donald Trump to make him look as sleazy and disgusting to everyone as possible. Stormy Daniel's testimony had nothing to do with alleged accounting fraud. They just want to make Trump look as bad as possible.
47 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
felixcat 5/8/2024 9:17:15 AM (No. 1714179)
I am not a fan of unlimited legal immigration and illegal immigrations: see children of legal immigrants such Alexander Mayorkas, Joy Reid, Ana Navarro, et al, BUT Judge Aileen Cannon, is also the daughter of a mother/legal immigrant from Columbia to the US. So there are exceptions but unfortunately - very rare.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Zigrid 5/8/2024 9:51:39 AM (No. 1714204)
Love the quote from Breitbart...the democrat judge should have said..."I'm socked...shocked to have a porn star in my courtroom"....
15 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
NotaBene 5/8/2024 11:02:25 AM (No. 1714248)
Colombian Judge Juan Marchant does not realize there is a Prostitute in the house.
8 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
bighambone 5/8/2024 11:19:35 AM (No. 1714265)
For the NY Democrat Biden supporting Judge to allow all that “Banana Republic” type BS to go unchecked in his courtroom indicates that the Biden crew most likely hinted to the Judge that if he allows this Democrat “law fare” political persecution to culminate with felony convictions of Trump that he will be in line for a Federal District Judgeship after Biden is re-elected in November.
7 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 5/8/2024 11:21:44 AM (No. 1714267)
The judge is NOT incompetent - - and he did NOT lose control.
He is doing exactly what he set out to do - - to use his power in the courtroom to GET TRUMP!
Wake up, folks - - these evil commies are not incompetent and clueless. They're very smart - - they have a plan - - and they're sticking to it.
19 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
Phantomll 5/8/2024 11:59:46 AM (No. 1714296)
How did this guy ever get to be a judge?
7 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
MickTurn 5/8/2024 12:14:23 PM (No. 1714303)
The Judge did NOT lose control, He purposely ALLOWED IT!
13 people like this.
Reply 19 - Posted by:
BocaLaura 5/8/2024 12:16:44 PM (No. 1714308)
Merchan is starting to make Judge Ito look good.
5 people like this.
Reply 20 - Posted by:
DVC 5/8/2024 12:25:31 PM (No. 1714318)
Can no higher court stop this obviously illegal and unconstitutional Kangaroo Kourt?
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 5/8/2024 2:19:43 PM (No. 1714364)
The judge wanted a circus in the courtroom. He got one. He wants Trump tried in the court of public opinion, and what's better than a circus. Everyone points and laughs at someone being humiliated. The 'comedians' will have a field day. It's vulgar. That's what the judge wanted. He never lost control.
I am happy Trump's lawyers didn't object. People need to see what's happening. This is our government folks. Not some cheap corrupt two-bit dictatorship ruled by an equally two-bit tyrant.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
danu 5/8/2024 4:08:39 PM (No. 1714432)
judge pervito will laugh and giggle when the honest hard-working independentistas in the journo business
dig into the interests of himself and his money-minded family. what will pop up, we wonder.
2 people like this.
Reply 23 - Posted by:
mifla 5/9/2024 4:47:15 AM (No. 1714659)
On cross examination, Trump's lawyers should have asked her what she charged for various sex acts, if she was available for parties, and how often she got checked for STDs.
4 people like this.
Reply 24 - Posted by:
franq 5/9/2024 8:21:58 AM (No. 1714772)
No, he willingly ceded control to chaos and smut to humiliate Trump.
Theater, nothing more. I am waiting for the Jerry Springer verdict episode, along with a courtroom melee between SS agents and bailiffs, as Trump is sentenced to a year in jail.
1 person likes this.
Reply 25 - Posted by:
janjan 5/9/2024 10:11:33 AM (No. 1714860)
By now it’s clear to even the dumbest juror that this clown show has nothing to do with the law and everything to do with the Get Trump strategy. They could skip the rest of the trial and go straight to the verdict. Either this jury will do the right thing as Americans or they won’t. I’m not betting heavily on their virtue.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 5/9/2024 6:51:33 PM (No. 1715177)
Judge Juan Merchan sounds like a prima ballerina who suddenly objects to the music score chosen.
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