President-elect Donald Trump appears remotely for a sentencing hearing in front of New York State Judge Juan Merchan at New York Criminal Court in New York City on Friday. (Brendan McDermid – Pool / AP)
As he is wont to do, President-elect Donald Trump made sure to get the last word in after Friday’s momentous developments.
Manhattan Judge Juan M. Merchan ruled that while Trump will be “sentenced” for a number of felony charges (34 to be exact), the judge would not impose any actual punishment.
(Merchan could’ve sentenced Trump to four years in prison.)
Trump, understandably perturbed by the proceedings, blasted the trial as “a weaponization of government” and “an embarrassment to New York.”
Merchan, a Democrat, appeared to get in one snide little comment during the trial, according to the New York Post.
“Sir, I wish you Godspeed as you assume a second term in office,” Merchan told Trump.
Well wishes or not, Trump obviously couldn’t let Merchan get the last laugh, so the former-and-future president took to Truth Social to lambaste everything about the case — and needle his Democratic rivals one last time
“The Radical Democrats have lost another pathetic, unAmerican Witch Hunt,” Trump posted shortly after Merchan’s ruling.
The president-elect would continue: “After spending tens of millions of dollars, wasting over 6 years of obsessive work that should have been spent on protecting New Yorkers from violent, rampant crime that is destroying the City and State, coordinating with the Biden/Harris Department of Injustice in lawless Weaponization, and bringing completely baseless, illegal, and fake charges against your 45th and 47th President, ME, I was given an UNCONDITIONAL DISCHARGE.
That result alone proves that, as all Legal Scholars and Experts have said, THERE IS NO CASE, THERE WAS NEVER A CASE, and this whole Scam fully deserves to be DISMISSED.
“The real Jury, the American People, have spoken, by Re-Electing me with an overwhelming MANDATE in one of the most consequential Elections in History.
“As the American People have seen, this ‘case’ had no crime, no damages, no proof, no facts, no Law, only a highly conflicted Judge, a star witness who is a disbarred, disgraced, serial perjurer, and criminal Election Interference.”
At this point, Trump did offer some good news — namely that “our once great System of Justice” could be salvaged.
“Today’s event was a despicable charade, and now that it is over, we will appeal this Hoax, which has no merit, and restore the trust of Americans in our once great System of Justice.”
Trump ended his retort with his iconic catchphrase (in his vintage all-caps style): “MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
