Judge Juan Merchan -A cut above the rest in presiding over the Trump Trial.
Dominican American Immigrant Judge Juan Merchan is in my opinion the perfect choice to preside over the Hosh Money Trial of arguably the worst criminal defendant in American Jurisprudence.
With a less experienced, less disciplined, less fair and less impeccable temperament, the trial on the Century would have been derailed longest time by the bomb- throwing first former President who had done everything in the book to impugn the integrity of all of the trials he has been indicted for due to guilty conscience because he knew what he had done.
He had exhibited a ruthless determination to escape Justice from the beginning to the end of the first trial before the election in November by constantly violating the rules and breaking Court Protocols every step of the way by defaming and insulting the Judge and everyone involved in the process including the Jury of his Peers just to cause enough chaos to abruptly truncate the trial.
But the Judge in very tight control of his Court and the proceedings had not let him by being very fair and firm but very wise and cerebral in handling the petulant former President.
Donald Trump and his Defense Counsel had expected the Jury Selection to last forever but the Judge had surprised him when he had accomplished that goal in less than a week much to his own credit.
The Defendant had focused all his energy by repeatedly violating the Gag Orders set out for him by the Judge thereby daring the Judge to dare punish him or send him to jail to further delay and disrupt the process because he knew he is as guilty as charged but the Judge has not fallen for any of that to the surprise of the whole country and to his own credit as a fearless Judge.
A lot could still go wrong, trust me but so far the Judge has done an incredibly outstanding job and he deserves our praise and acknowledgement
I am not going to rush to judgment and so should you and all of us
The learned Judge comes from Dominican Republic, the country with the oldest University in this Hemisphere the last time I checked.
It’s bad enough for the President of the most powerful nation in the world to be criminally indicted on 88 counts in both state and federal jurisdictions but horrendous and monumental for such a candidate to be convicted by the Jury of his peers for stealing an election by deception andblackmailing his opponent who beat him by close to 3 million votes in the popular vote but narrowly losing to him in the Electoral College
To dismiss that tragedy as the result of a witch-hunt is nothing short of a tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury signifying nothing.
Anybody who is feeling sorry for Melania that her philanderer husband was repeatedly cheating on her should remember Hillary Clinton who was defamed, blackmailed and robbed by Donald Trump of her History-making chance of a life time to become the first female President of the United States
Such a person should think again. Donald Trump does not deserve any mercy he is not willing to show or extend to Melania or to Hillary. He is a heartless narcissist who only thinks of himself and no one else.
Prince Dr Wumi Akintide a public affair analyst writes from Oyemekun Terrace New York City