Former President Trump arrives at The Trump Building in Manhattan on Monday, March 25, 2024. (Adam Gray for Fox News Digital)
The presumptive 2024 Republican presidential nominee echoed his past comments, railing against the legal system in the United States, which he says "has been corrupted & politicized at a level never seen before."
Trump said that during his campaign visits in Michigan and Wisconsin on Tuesday he will have "plenty to talk about."
Justice Arthur Engoron presides over the civil fraud trial of the Trump Organization at the New York State Supreme Court in New York City on Nov. 13, 2023. (Erin Schaff/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)
Trump pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree last year. The trial is set to begin on April 15 in New York. Upon setting the trial date, Judge Juan Merchan granted Bragg’s request for a gag order to be imposed on Trump.
"I just was informed that another corrupt New York Judge, Juan Merchan, GAGGED me so that I can not talk about the corruption and conflicts taking place in his courtroom with respect to a case that everyone, including the D.A., felt should never have been brought," Trump posted. "They can talk about me, but I can’t talk about them??? That sounds fair, doesn’t it?"
Trump said Merchan "should be recused, and the case should be thrown out."
"There has virtually never been a more conflicted judge than this one," Trump posted. "ELECTION INTERFERENCE at its worst!"
Merchan issued the order against Trump last week, pointing to his "prior extrajudicial statements," saying they establish "a sufficient risk to the administration of justice."
New York Attorney General Letitia James speaks outside New York Supreme Court ahead of former President Donald Trump's civil business fraud trial on Oct. 2, 2023, in New York. (AP Photo/Brittainy Newman)
In the non-jury civil fraud trial stemming from James’ lawsuit, Engoron also imposed a gag order against Trump. Engoron said Trump violated that order twice, and forced him to pay a penalty.
The charges against Trump in the Bragg case are related to alleged hush-money payments made during the 2016 presidential campaign.
In 2019, federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York opted not to charge Trump related to the payments made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal.
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The Federal Election Commission also tossed its investigation into the matter in 2021.
Meanwhile, the Biden campaign is trolling Trump as he returns to the campaign trail.
"It’s been 14 days since Donald Trump had a campaign event at all," Biden campaign rapid response director Ammar Mousa wrote in an email, with the subject line: "Donald Trump – welcome back to the trail."
Mousa said Trump's trip to Michigan and Wisconsin "comes on the heels of a month where he’s losing ground, momentum, and money."
"One day away from the Mar A Lago sun deck isn’t going to fix it," he wrote.
The latest Fox News Poll shows Trump with an edge over Biden in a general election match-up. And another Fox News Poll asked voters if they are better off than they were four years ago.
Only about 1 in 5 voters today answers yes, according to the latest Fox News national survey.
Brooke Singman is a political correspondent and reporter for Fox News Digital, Fox News Channel and FOX Business.
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