Turley: "Are You Staring Me Down: Judge Merchan Becomes an Oddity in His Own Courtroom"

It certainly sounds like a kangaroo court, if Turley is to be believed. Especially this stuff:

After gutting any use of a legal expert to testify on the absence of any such violations, the judge allowed the jury to hear Michael Cohen state that the payments to Stormy Daniels were clearly campaign violations.
All that Merchan would offer is a weak instruction telling jurors not to take such statements as proof of a violation.
The alleged campaign-finance violations allowed Cohen to try to implicate Trump. However, it is doubtful that Trump could have been convicted on such a charge in any other venue.
It is precisely what the Justice Department tried and failed to do with John Edwards, a Democratic candidate.
After that unmitigated failure, the Justice Department dropped this theory of hush money as a campaign contribution.
Indeed, after reviewing the Trump payments, not only did the Justice Department decline any charges but the Federal Election Commission did not even seek a civil fine.
On Monday, Judge Merchan’s orders became even more inexplicable when Cohen’s former attorney Robert Costello took the stand.
Merchan immediately started to sustain a flurry of prosecutors’ objections as Costello basically accused Cohen of multiple acts of perjury.
At one point, Costello — one of the most experienced lawyers in New York and a former prosecutor — exclaimed that one of the judge’s rulings was “ridiculous.”
The judge chastised Costello and even challenged him: “Are you staring me down?”
In fact, it was hard not to stare. What is happening in the courtroom of Judge Juan Merchan is anything but ordinary.

But I'm not objective. Despite thinking Trump shouldn't be President, I think the other side is far more dangerous. And I'm appalled at the open lawfare being deployed against a Presidential candidate--regardless of who that candidate is or what side he's on. Trump is subject to a barrage of implausible charges and ad hoc modifications and applications of law (e.g. the (temporary, no less!) suspension of the statute of limitations for the E. Jean Carroll case). Whereas--just to gesture at an important touchstone--the prima facie case against Biden for influence peddling is clear and alarming...but it's being hushed up and outright denied by the media (which is sticking to its story that there is "no evidence whatsoever" against him), and slow-walked by the DoJ.