“President Trump respectfully submits this memorandum and accompanying Affirmation1 in support of his motion for recusal based on due process under the state and federal constitutions, Judiciary Law § 14, as well as 22 NYCRR §§ 100.2 and 100.3. Your Honor’s daughter, Loren Merchan, has a direct financial interest in these proceedings by virtue of her ownership stake and leadership role at Authentic Campaigns, Inc. Based on public disbursements data, Authentic, which services exclusively Democrat clients, is the #21 ranked vendor in the country in connection with the 2024 election. In 2019, Ms Merchan made public statements during a podcast regarding a conversation with Your Honor that reflect bias against President Trump from both speakers in that exchange.”

“Consistent with that conversation, President Biden and Vice President Harris are long-term clients of Authentic and Ms Merchan, along with many other politicians and entities who are actively campaigning and advocating against President Trump right now. At least six of Authentic’s clients used fundraising solicitations that referenced this case around the time of the Indictment, President Trump’s arraignment, or following the Court’s denial of President Trump’s recusal motion. Authentic’s clients disbursed more than $18 million to the company between the return of the Indictment and the present. It is industry practice that Authentic would receive percentages based on funds raised and recipient engagement, and Ms Merchan has had an ownership stake and leadership role in the company while this case is pending,” write fat former President Trump’s lawyers in yet another bitchy complaint to Manhattan Judge Juan Merchan about his daughter.

Now we’re not lawyers but just extrapolating what we understand about Jack Smith having basically zero options at this point for getting that scumbag Aileen Cannon removed from the Mar-a-Lago case we would hazard that this is all just Trump’s lawyers jerking him off again rather than any real threat to the trial proceeding on schedule (differences between the New York State and federal judicial systems aside). The lengthy motion suggests it is the kind of step meant to open the door to an interlocutory appeal and a stay from a higher state court to delay the trial. Even though some dickhead appellate judge or judges they did him a solid on the civil fraud bond last month it just doesn’t seem like a fucking podcast episode is going to be a big enough wrench.

Not so sure about that? This is literally what Trump’s lawyers wrote in the motion:

“During a June 2019 podcast, Ms. Merchan attributed the following statement to Your Honor: ‘I hate that politicians use Twitter… It’s so unprofessional… That’s not how a politician should behave themselves.’ Ms Merchan explained during the podcast that she responded to Your Honor: ‘Yeah, I think there are a lot of instances where it is not used in – like when our President tweets anything that he thinks, and like, that’s not what he should be using it for.'”