«With respect to Judge Merchan. I have, like, a man crush on him,» legal analyst Andrew Weissmann said on Wednesday.
Followers of former President Donald Trump’s MAGA movement are ridiculing legal analyst Andrew Weissmann for proclaiming a «man crush» on New York State Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan.
Merchan is overseeing Trump’s hush money criminal trial in New York, which was nearing its conclusion with the jury deliberating on Wednesday night. The former president has pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to cover up payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels during his 2016 presidential campaign.
Weissman, a New York University law professor and former FBI general counsel, gushed about the judge during a Wednesday appearance on MSNBC, praising Merchan for his «judicial temperament» while revealing his «man crush» during an interview with host Andrea Mitchell.
«With respect to Judge Merchan—I mean, I am like now, you know…I have, like, a man crush on him,» Weissmann said. «He is such a great judge that it’s hard to see that the jurors wouldn’t have the same impression.»
«You just keep on thinking, if you looked in a dictionary of for, like, ‘judicial temperament,’ that’s what you’d get,» he added.
