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Former President Donald Trump and his supporters threw a fit as his trial over the Stormy Daniels hush money payment began. They claimed that the former president was being victimized by being subjected to the same standards as every other regular criminal trial defendant before him. The accusations of wrongful treatment against Trump grew stronger after Judge Merchan, overseeing the case, asked Trump to be present every day of the criminal trial, which is a standard proceeding, as per HuffPost. “If you disrupt the proceedings in any way, the law permits the court to exclude you from the court, commit you to jail, and continue the trial in your absence,” the judge said, denying Trump permission to be absent on the day of his son Barron Trump’s graduation.
Trump and his associates expressed quick disapproval of Merchan’s choice, undermining the legitimacy of the case and its participants, according to CNN. Governor of North Dakota, Doug Burgum, described the case as ‚a sham trial‘ headed by a district attorney who was ‚politically motivated‘ and asserted, “If this was brought against anybody other than President Trump, this would have been a misdemeanor.
