Giuliani Makes Racist Jab At Trump’s NYC Trial Judge

The Daily Beast reports:

Rudy Giuliani on Tuesday joined the chorus of critics falsely claiming the New York judge presiding over Donald Trump’s criminal hush-money trial won’t let the former president attend his son’s graduation, insisting Juan Merchan is “not a judge in the tradition of Anglo-American jurists.”

A spokesperson for Giuliani insisted that any implication that the former mayor’s “Anglo-American” remark about the Colombian-born judge is racist is “an absurd attempt to smear the mayor.”

“He is obviously referring to Anglo-American common law, which refers to a type of law based on court decisions instead of written laws (IE: statutes),” Ted Goodman told The Daily Beast.

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Judge Merchan is a disgrace and not a judge in the tradition of Anglo-American jurists. By refusing to allow Donald J. Trump to attend his son Barron’s graduation—something even guilty defendants would be allowed to do—he goes beyond the usual NYC judge selected by Democrat…

— Rudy W. Giuliani (@RudyGiuliani) April 16, 2024