Donald Trump took aim at Judge Juan Merchan as he seemingly referred to Merchan being Colombian born.
Amid his criminal hush money trial on Tuesday, Donald Trump accidentally insulted Judge Aileen Cannon, who is presiding over his classified documents case, as the former president took aim at Judge Juan Merchan, who is overseeing the trial.Trump, the presumptive 2024 Republican presidential nominee, became the first former president in U.S. history to stand trial in a criminal case last month.
Merchan, who was born in Bogotá, Colombia, moved to the United States with his family when he was 6 and grew up in Queens, New York. Merchan began his legal career in 1994 and worked as prosecutor, serving in the New York County District Attorney's before being appointed a family court judge in 2006 by then New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg. He was named an acting state Supreme Court justice in 2009, overseeing felony criminal cases.
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