Trump's attempt to 'throw mud' at hush money judge is doomed — and he knows it: expert

Former President Donald Trump has incredibly long odds in his bid to force Judge Juan Merchan to recuse himself from the Manhattan hush money case, argued former prosecutor Renato Mariotti on MSNBC's "The Beat" Friday evening.

And Trump knows this, he argued — it's yet another 11th-hour bid to put up a delay on the trial, as the date looms later this month.

"I want to go to you about this last-minute filing on a Friday afternoon from Donald Trump," said anchor Katie Phang, herself an attorney. "It is not like he's got a lot of time, but this motion to recuse alleges that the judge's daughter's company, because it does work for Democrats, that that in and of itself is grounds to be able to get him off the case ... but then at the end of the filing, Donald Trump says, but you know what? Even if it's not a requirement to recuse yourself, judge, then you should do it because of an appearance of impropriety. We all have a lot of déjà vu, we heard that during the Fulton County case when it concerned D.A. Fani Willis. But a judge is different from a prosecutor. Your thoughts on this motion to recuse?"

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"You know, just like it's difficult to recuse Judge Cannon, it's also going to be very, very difficult here for Trump to win on this," said Mariotti. "I think trump knows that ... and I think he filed it when he did in order to have a full weekend of people talking about this, because merely talking about the motion repeats his talking points."

"This is about delay," Mariotti continued. "This is about him trying to, you know, dirty up the judge, throw mud at the judge, like he did in the civil fraud trial. Just like he's done elsewhere. He's trying to essentially, you know, put what he can and paint with a broad brush, because ultimately, the judge's daughter doesn't have an interest in this particular case. You know, in the reality, the work she's done for separate candidates and separate causes really have nothing to do with this particular criminal matter. So I don't think that this is going to be granted. I don't think it's going anywhere."

"But of course, it's going create a lot of fodder for social media," he added.

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