Judge Juan Merchan, who is presiding over the alleged “hush money” case of former President Donald Trump in Manhattan, is once again finding himself with a snag, as a complaint has been lodged against him alleging that he is in violation of ethics rules concerning his position. The complaint was filed by GOP Congresswoman Elisa Stefanik of New York. The complaint states that Trump’s conviction should be overturned and tossed out because of Merchan’s daughter, an adult, who does work as a Democratic Party consultant. She’s even done some projects for President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. This, folks, is a conflict of interest.
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Merchan, she writes, should be reprimanded “for his illegal conflict of interest in the sham Manhattan trial against President Trump,” alleging the Harris campaign has a “newly active financial relationship,” according to Fox News. She called on the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct to launch a “fresh inquiry concerning Justice Merchan’s conflict and take any appropriate action resulting from it.” President Trump was found guilty of 34 felony counts in an unprecedented trial, the first criminal conviction of a current or former president in American history. The case, brought by Democratic District Attorney Alvin Bragg, has been the impetus for Kamala Harris and her allies to label the former president a “convicted felon” campaigning to get his old job back. All of that is fraudulent and should never have occurred, Rep. Stefanik writes.
“On August 20, 2024, Vice President Harris’s campaign submitted its first Federal Election Commission (FEC) report that documented expenses and donations through July 31, 2024. In the report… a July 30, 2024, disbursement appears in the amount of $468.00 from Vice President Harris’s campaign to Authentic Campaigns Inc. (Authentic) for web hosting services,” Stefanik stated in the complaint. “This indicates that one of the very first things that Harris did upon taking over the Biden campaign infrastructure is to hire this firm, Authentic.”
“Authentic is a digital consulting and marketing firm that services Democrat candidates. Loren Merchan, Justice Merchan’s daughter, is its president,” Stefanik continued. “Vice President Harris changed web hosting companies from AWS to Authentic immediately after becoming the presumptive Democrat presidential nominee. This is merely the beginning of a new contract with a new campaign, regardless of the amount reimbursed. Sure, there’s an immediate benefit, but this is a play at a potential larger benefit for Authentic and Merchan down the road.”
The New York Republican ends the complaint by saying that the court’s conduct “dictates that a judge must recuse from a case where a relative up to and including the sixth degree has a financial interest in the outcome of the case. Ms. Merchan is related to Justice Merchan in the first degree. Authentic has a newly active financial relationship with Vice President Harris’s campaign.”
Harris’ campaign has not weighed in on this matter, likely because of the fact Merchan’s daughter has played such a big role in helping to raise funds and consult for very powerful and influential individuals in the Democratic Party such as Harris herself, former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, and several others.
“Defense attorneys for Trump are separately seeking to dismiss the conviction in the wake of a landmark Supreme Court ruling granting presidents sweeping immunity for official acts committed while in office. In other cases, some of their efforts have already found purchase: Florida U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon last month dismissed Trump’s classified documents case, agreeing with defense attorneys that special counsel Jack Smith was improperly appointed by U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland,” the report concluded.
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