Trump rips judge for warning he may have to SKIP Barron’s high school graduation: Ex-president says his son, 18, has worked ‘very hard’ and claims he won’t get a fair trial at the end of the dramatic first day in court

Donald Trump insulted the judge in his historic hush money trial for potentially refusing to let him leave court to attend his son Barron’s graduation next month.

The former president also criticized the judge for denying him permission to go to the US Supreme Court next week for a hearing related to January 6.

Trump walked free after the first day of jury selection, becoming the first former US president to face a criminal trial.

Barron, 18, will graduate from high school on May 17, and the trial is set to continue at that time.

Trump said: ‘It looks like the judge won’t let me go to the exam for my son who has worked very, very hard.

‘He’s a great student and he’s very proud that he did so well and looked forward to graduating for years with his mum and dad there and it looks like the judge won’t allow me to escape this scam. , it’s a scam.’

Judge Juan Merchan denied Trump permission to be at the Supreme Court next week because of arguments related to charges against the Jan. 6 defendant for obstructing official proceedings, a case that could affect his other criminal cases.

Trump claimed it was part of a ‘political witch hunt’ that ‘goes on forever’.

The former president said: ‘We will not be given a fair trial. He is a very conflicted judge. He won’t allow me to leave here for half a day, go to DC and go before the US Supreme Court because he thinks he’s superior, I think, to the Supreme Court.

‘We have a real problem with this judge and a real problem with a lot of things that have to do with this trial.’

Trump said those problems included that “you walk right outside and people are being robbed and killed all day long and he (the judge) sits here all day with about 10 or 12 prosecutors over nothing, over what people say, not should be a try.’

He continued: ‘That I can’t go to my son’s graduation, that I can’t go to the US Supreme Court, that I’m not in Georgia or Florida or North Carolina campaigning like I should be…it’s perfect for the left-wing democrats.

‘That’s exactly what they want. This is about election interference, it’s about.’

It came as Judge Merchan, sitting in New York City, dismissed dozens of potential jurors who said they could not fairly decide whether the 2024 Republican presidential nominee illegally covered up a hush money payment to a porn star.

Judge Merchan told nearly 100 potential jurors to set aside any prejudices or personal opinions about the defendant or the case, including “political orientation.”

At least 50 were dismissed after saying they could not be impartial in judging Trump.

Others were excused who said they could not serve for other reasons.

“I just couldn’t do it,” one prospective juror was heard saying outside the courtroom.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, a Democrat, has accused Trump of falsifying records to cover up a $130,000 payment in the waning days of the 2016 presidential campaign to buy porn star Stormy Daniels’ silence about a 2006 sexual encounter, she has said. that they had.

Trump has denied such a relationship with Daniels and pleads not guilty.

Trump’s former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen will testify that he paid to buy Daniels’ silence ahead of the 2016 election, in which Trump defeated Democrat Hillary Clinton.

Trump must attend the trial, which is expected to last through May, the judge ruled.

Lawyers from both sides will seek to empanel 12 jurors and six alternates to hear what could be the only criminal case Trump faces before the Nov. 5 election.

Picking a jury from a group of people from heavily Democratic Manhattan could take several days, followed by opening statements and testimony from a parade of potentially compelling witnesses, including Cohen and Daniels.

Judge Merchan said that to convict, jurors must find Trump guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, not that he is “probably” guilty.

A guilty verdict would not disqualify Trump from office.

Falsifying business records in New York is a felony punishable by up to four years in prison, although many of those found guilty have been sentenced to fines or probation.

Wearing his blue suit and red tie, Trump, 77, watched from the defendant’s table as prosecutors asked a judge to fine him and remind him that he could go to jail for violating a gag order that prevents him from interfere with potential witnesses.

Prosecutors also asked the judge to fine Trump $1,000 for each of three social media posts about Cohen and Daniels this month.