NY.- Judge Juan Merchanassigned to the case against the former president Donald Trump, in New York, for falsifying commercial documents, as well as his family have received more than a dozen threats through calls and emails, local media reported.
Most of the threats and defamatory calls, which apparently came from out of state and are being investigated, occurred within 24 hours of Merchan reading the 34 charges brought by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office against the former president last Tuesday, from those who Trump pleaded not guilty.
After learning that Merchan would be the judge who would read the charges of the Prosecutor’s Office, Trump wrote on his social network Truth that the magistrate hated him.
Merchan, who immigrated to New York from Colombia when he was six years old, previously presided over the tax fraud trial of the trump organization, property of the former president; oversaw a case against his former counsel Steve Bannon and sentenced to prison Allen Weisselbergone of the businessman’s most faithful squires.
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The prosecutor Alvin Braggwho has led the investigation against the former Republican president, and other staff in his office have continued to receive threatsso the Police have increased security for these, the media also point out.
According to the indictment, the former US president orchestrated a scheme to silence three people who could harm his campaign for the Presidency in 2016, including adult film actress Stormy Daniels.
In a press conference in Miami, after hearing the charges against him, Trump stated that “the lunatics, maniacs and perverts of the radical leftThey accused and arrested him “without any reason”.
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