Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett said on "Fox & Friends" Monday that Judge Juan Merchan appears "desperate to stain" President-elect Trump with the label of "convicted felon" before the inauguration. Jarrett called out New York officials for focusing on Trump despite rampant crime in the blue state. -- GREGG JARRETT: I think Merchan is desperate to stain the incoming president with the label convicted felon. And understand, under the law, Trump is not officially convicted of anything until he's formally sentenced, even though many in the media, of course, began immediately and incorrectly calling him a convicted felon when the jury verdict came in. That was the whole goal of indicting Trump and putting him on trial. Democrats assumed their politically driven lawfare campaign would destroy him. Instead, you know, it had the opposite effect. Voters saw it for what it was: a corrupt weaponization of the law, and it backfired spectacularly.-Many Americans recognize this was a sham trial, a preordained outcome. It drove a lot of them to Donald Trump and he won. And it's one of the reasons why these George Soros-funded progressive district attorneys have ruined major cities in blue states.Alvin Bragg is a prime example. If you're Trump, a misdemeanor business records violation somehow becomes a phantom felony. And in the end, nobody actually knew what he was convicted of. And it wasn't a unanimous jury verdict. The best we can tell, nobody really knows. A bedrock violation.--https://www.foxnews.com/media/desperate-nyc-judge-torched-legal-analyst-over-trump-sentencing-has-backfired-spectacularly
