When former President Donald Trump warned America that Judge Juan Merchan “is suffering from an acute case of Trump Derangement Syndrome,” he was correct.

Merchan’s “daughter represents Crooked Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Adam ‘Shifty’ Schiff, and other Radical Liberals, has just posted a picture of me behind bars, her obvious goal, and makes it completely impossible for me to get a fair trial” he informed the world on his Truth Social website just prior to the sham trial. 

Alan M. Dershowitz, professor of law, emeritus, at Harvard Law School, wrote that during his “60 years as a lawyer and law professor, I have never seen a spectacle such as the one I observed sitting in the front row” of the trial.

He described Judge Merchan as “an absolute tyrant, though he appeared to the jury to be a benevolent despot. He seemed automatically to be ruling against the defendant at every turn.”

It was so bad, that even New York Rep. Elise Stefanik (R) sent a letter to  State  officials arguing there of the “misconduct” within the New York Supreme Court system to ensure Judge Juan Merchan presided over the unprecedented NY v. Trump trial.

“One cannot help but suspect that the ‘random selection’ at work in the assignment of Acting Justice Merchan, a Democrat Party donor, to these cases involving prominent Republicans, is in fact not random at all,” Stefanik wrote.

In her letter sent to the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct and the Office of the Inspector General of the New York State Unified Court System, she warned of the “potential misconduct.”

Dershowitz noted that “many experienced lawyers raised their eyebrows when the judge excluded obviously relevant evidence when offered by the defense, while including irrelevant evidence offered by the prosecution.”

“But when the defense’s only substantive witness, the experienced attorney Robert Costello, raised his eyebrows at one of New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan’s rulings, the court went berserk.”

“Losing his cool and showing his thin skin, the judge cleared the courtroom of everyone including the media.”

Dershowitz said he was “one of the few witnesses to his improper conduct who remained behind to observe his deep failings.”

“For some reason, I was allowed to stay, and I observed one of the most remarkable wrong-headed biases I have ever seen,” he continued. “The judge actually threatened to strike all of Costello’s testimony if he raised his eyebrows again.”

“That of course would have been unconstitutional because it would have denied the defendant his Sixth Amendment right to confront witnesses and to raise a defense.”

“It would have punished the defendant for something a witness was accused of doing.”

“Even if what Costello did was wrong, and it was not, it would be utterly improper and unlawful to strike his testimony — testimony that undercut and contradicted the government’s star witness.”

“The judge’s threat was absolutely outrageous, unethical, unlawful and petty,” Dershowitz maintained. “The public should have been able to see the judge in action, but because the case is not being televised, the public has to rely on the biased reporting of partisan journalists.”

“But the public was even denied the opportunity to hear from journalists who saw the judge in action because he cleared the courtroom.”

“Even when journalists do report on courtroom proceedings, their accounts must be taken with a grain of salt. When you watch CNN or MSNBC, you generally see an account of a trial that never took place.”

“They spin the events so much that reality is totally distorted.”

Dershowitz revealed when, during a break, he spoke with one of his former students and research assistants, a CNN legal analyst named Norman Eisen “and asked him about his family. We chatted for a few minutes in the most friendly way.”

“But NBC, the Daily Beast and other media decided to make up a story about the event. They claimed that I had a spat with my nemesis, rather than a friendly conversation with a former student. Their account was made up, yet it was circulated through the media,” he explained. “To his credit, Eisen wrote to the media to correct the account, saying that the person sitting next to him would confirm the media’s false reporting. I doubt we will see a retraction.”

“This minor incident is simply the tip of a very large and deep iceberg of false reporting about the trial that can only occur because the proceedings are not being televised.”

“There are television cameras in the courtroom, and they record and transmit every word, but not to the public; only select reporters in the overflow room see what the cameras transmit.”

“There is absolutely no good reason why a trial of this importance, or any trial, should not be televised live and in real time. Allowing the public to see their courts in action is the best guarantee of fairness. As Justice Louis Brandeis wisely said a century ago, ‘Sunlight is the best disinfectant.'”

“Today there is no check on partisan reporting of trials and exaggerations and personal opinions are rampant,” Dershowitz said. “The American public is the loser.”

Last week, Rep. Stefanik filed an ethics complaint against Judge Merchan for an alleged conflict of interest related to his daughter’s role representing Democrat politicians and political action committees. Merchan’s daughter is the president of Authentic Campaigns, a digital marketing agency that has included clients such as Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif.

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