Kash Patel predicts Trump’s judge won’t stop ‘the weaponization of justice’

Published November 12, 2024 1:50pm ET



Former Trump adviser Kash Patel claimed that the judge in the president-elect’s hush money case doesn’t have the “wherewithal” to undo the conviction.

New York County Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan will soon decide whether Trump’s 34 felony counts of falsifying business records will stand after the U.S. Supreme Court granted him presidential immunity for his actions while president. Patel, who is floated as one of Trump’s attorney general picks, was not confident that Merchan would abide by the highest court’s ruling.

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