The judge was born in Colombia and moved to the United States at age 6, growing up in New York City's borough of Queens, according to news reports. Merchan has been a Manhattan criminal court judge since 2009 after prior stints on the state's Court of Claims, which hears cases against the state and its agencies, and family court in the Bronx. Merchan also is presiding over a criminal case involving former Trump campaign and White House adviser Steve Bannon, who has pleaded not guilty to charges of money laundering, conspiracy and fraud related to a nonprofit that raised funds for building a wall on the U.S. The Trump Organization trial is not Merchan's only recent encounter with people close to the former president. Merchan did not reply to a request for comment. "He strong armed Allen, which a judge is not allowed to do, & treated my companies, which didn't 'plead,' VICIOUSLY." "The Judge 'assigned' to my Witch Hunt Case, a 'Case' that has NEVER BEEN CHARGED BEFORE, HATES ME," wrote Trump, who has launched a campaign to regain the presidency in 2024. On Friday, Trump, who was not charged in his company's case, lashed out at Merchan on his Truth Social platform. The judge also sentenced Weisselberg, who long served as an executive under Trump but was the prosecution's star witness in the trial, to five months of incarceration. Merchan sentenced the Trump Organization to pay $1.6 million after jurors convicted the company in December. Susan Necheles, a Trump attorney, told Reuters the former president will plead not guilty. The grand jury has indicted Trump, though the specific charges have not been publicly disclosed. Trump is expected to be arraigned before Merchan on Tuesday following a grand jury investigation into hush money paid to porn star Stormy Daniels in the run-up to the 2016 U.S. Merchan last year oversaw a criminal trial of the Trump Organization that ended with the real estate company convicted by a jury of tax fraud and hit with fines, while one of its longtime executives, Allen Weisselberg, pleaded guilty and was sent to jail. president but familiar territory for the veteran judge who serves on Manhattan's criminal court. Just ahead of that, with 695,000 likes, was his message paying respects to the late basketball player Kobe Bryant.April 4 (Reuters) - When Donald Trump walks into Justice Juan Merchan's courtroom on Tuesday to face criminal charges, it will be a first for a former U.S. Just missing the top 10 list, the president's December 25, 2019, post that simply stated "Merry Christmas!" was liked more than 686,000 times. as a terrorist organization, with 788,000 likes. Just ahead of that in terms of popularity, Trump's fourth most-liked tweet was a May 31 claim that Antifa, a loose left-wing protest collective which is not a formal organization, would be designated by the U.S. and allegedly covering-up "the Wuhan virus." It came as he blasted Beijing from the Rose Garden for "ripping off" the U.S. On May 29, the president's one-word post "CHINA!" attracted 765,000 likes, his fifth most liked post ever. rapper Rakim Mayers, aka ASAP Rocky, being released from custody in Sweden and was "on his way home," picking up 821,000 likes.īroadly, a lot of Trump's most popular posts throughout his term were shorter updates with a simple message. Trump's third most-favorited tweet over the past four years was dated August 2, 2019, when he referenced U.S. The president's second most-liked post was from the same day, when he gave a brief update to his followers that his treatment for the novel coronavirus-linked disease was "going welI, I think!" That post has been liked approximately 1.2 million times. With close to 1.9 million likes, Trump's most-favorited tweet throughout his term remains his announcement that he and the First Lady tested positive for COVID-19, which was posted October 2 this year and also attracted hundreds of thousands of shares. Over the past four years, since winning the White House in November 2016, a database called the Trump Twitter Archive shows he has tweeted more than 25,000 times-with the majority of his top 30 most-liked updates published in 20. Trump created his profile in May 2009 and as of today has posted more than 55,000 tweets. In the years since that post, his following on the platform has ballooned to more than 87 million accounts and his posts still regularly dominate the news cycle. it's like owning your own newspaper-without the losses," he tweeted in 2012. Donald Trump has long favored Twitter as a method to circumvent the media, criticize political rivals and speak directly to his base.
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