Judge Juan Manuel Merchan is poised to take the historic hush-money prosecution of Donald Trump himself.
As a judge, "you have to do it right. It has to be fair, the public has to know it's fair, and then the outcome is the outcome," she said. "You want to make sure that you are staying away from all the politics, because it is only about the law."
He was a Manhattan prosecutor and worked in the state attorney general's office before then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg appointed him as a family court judge in 2006. First came the tax fraud case against Trump's company and its longtime finance chief, Allen Weisselberg. Nicholas Gravante, who represented Weisselberg in the plea negotiations, said Merchan was "a real listener, well-prepared, always accessible, and a man who kept his word."
Merchan said he wanted to keep politics out of the trial, which he conducted with a largely even-tempered and kindly tone.
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