Trump Rails Against Justice System After Sentencing News

After clinching the presidency, Donald Trump’s string of legal woes appear to be all but behind him — but the president-elect slammed the justice system he contends unfairly targeted him after the New York judge overseeing his case scheduled his sentencing.

“There has never been a President who was so evilly and illegally treated as I,” the president-elect said Saturday as part of a slew of social media posts. “Corrupt Democrat judges and prosecutors have gone against a political opponent of a President, ME, at levels of injustice never seen before.”

Trump’s flurry of posts came after Justice Juan Merchan on Friday stated Trump will be sentenced on Jan. 10 for his criminal hush money conviction — but also forecasted that the president-elect, who is set to take the White House in about two weeks, will not face jail time.

Trump was once the subject of four simultaneous criminal cases, but those began to fall away following Trump’s decisive electoral victory in November after a campaign built in part on a narrative that Trump had been a victim of “lawfair” perpetrated by his Democratic political enemies. The New York hush money case, for which a jury last year convicted Trump of 34 counts of falsifying business records, is the only one that will stick with a criminal conviction on his record.

Still, Trump on Saturday maintained that he “never falsified business records,” calling the case “a fake, made up charge by a corrupt judge who is just doing the work of the Biden/Harris Injustice Department, an attack on their political opponent, ME!”

He added that Merchan “should be disbarred!”

The president-elect also slammed New York’s justice system in particular as “corrupt” and said its “crooked” courts are “why people, and companies, are FLEEING” his home state.

A New York-based appeals court on Monday upheld a $5 million civil verdict against Trump for sexual abuse and defamation claims brought by E. Jean Carroll, writing in a 77-page opinion that “[T]he jury could reasonably infer … that Mr. Trump engaged in similar conduct with other women — a pattern of abrupt, nonconsensual, and physical advances on women he barely knew.”

“The woman I never met (celebrity photo lines from 30 years ago don’t count!), who was awarded almost $100,000,000,” Trump said Saturday of Carroll, whom a jury ordered Trump to pay $83.3 million over defamatory remarks he made about her. He called the judge presiding over that case, Lewis Kaplan, “A totally out of control, Trump hating judge.”

“Corrupt judges, or judges so blinded by their hatred of me and my political ideology to “MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN,” are making a mockery of the United States Judicial System, and the World is watching in disgust,” Trump said.

The president-elect has vowed to overhaul the Justice Department, one of the three pillars of the so-called government “deep state” Trump and his supporters contend are clandestinely maneuvering to stifle his agenda. He tapped former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi to lead the agency, which will be essential as Trump attempts to enact the sweeping policies he ran on, including mass deportations.