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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Woodward

Trump bashes ‘psychotic’ decision by Judge Merchan to hold him accountable in hush money case

After the judge overseeing his hush money trial refused to throw out Donald Trump’s conviction, the president-elect blasted the order as “completely illegal” and “psychotic.”

Trump’s attorneys pushed the judge to overturn a jury’s verdict and dismiss the case, which they argued was compromised by evidence that should be shielded under the scope of the Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential “immunity.”

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