Juan Merchan, the viciously biased presiding judge in the bogus “hush money” case against Donald Trump, has just dealt a wholly unexpected and yet staggering blow to the leftists who were positively slavering at the prospect of seeing Trump clapped behind bars on Sept. 18. The destroyers of the republic will now have to content themselves with hollering “convicted felon!” at every conceivable opportunity, for Merchan has now set the sentencing for Nov. 26, a full three weeks after what used to be Election Day and is now the formal end of Election Season.
Merchan explained defensively that he postponed the sentencing in order “to avoid any appearance — however unwarranted — that the proceeding has been affected by or seeks to affect the approaching Presidential election in which the Defendant is a candidate.” He added: “The Court is a fair, impartial, and apolitical institution,” and insisted, again with an unusual degree of defensiveness, that the postponement “should dispel any suggestion that the Court will have issued any decision or imposed sentence either to give an advantage to, or to create a disadvantage for, any political party and or any candidate for any office.”
Good move, Juan, but your explanation won’t fly. You have made no effort to dispel the impression that you’re a partisan hack. In fact, you only fueled it by batting aside the Trump team’s repeated requests that you recuse yourself from the case, given all the clear evidence of your deep and abiding bias. You also demonstrated your bias by entertaining the case in the first place, since it revolves around a transaction of the sort that big corporations make on a routine basis without ever running afoul of the long arm of the law.
And so while this is a welcome decision, there is no way that it can be seen as Judge Merchan suddenly being overcome by the dictates of his conscience, and deciding to do the right thing against all the odds instead of going ahead, as everyone in the world expected, and administering the coup de grace to our tottering republic. It is much more likely that Democrat top dogs calculated that an imprisoned Trump would do more harm than good to their electoral chances, as everyone could then see that the Democrats have become the party of tinpot dictators and banana republics.
Merchan has saved the Democrats from that for now. But it will soon be obvious, nevertheless.
