Rick Scott doubles down on attacks against Judge Merchan's daughter

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Hill

05/12/24 10:28 PM ET


Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) stuck by his attacks against the daughter of the judge overseeing former President Trump’s criminal case on Sunday, claiming she is a “political operative.” Scott was in New York City on Thursday to support Trump in his criminal case, where he faces over 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to attempts to cover up a past affair before the 2016 election.

In front of the courthouse, Scott attacked the daughter of Judge Juan Merchan, claiming she was a Democratic operative and that her work tainted the judge’s impartiality. Trump previously made similar remarks, but he was reprimanded after Merchan expanded a gag order in the case.

“The judge’s daughter is a political operative and raises money for Democrats,” Scott said in New York. When questioned in a “Fox News Sunday” interview about why he personally went after someone who is not in politics, Scott doubled down. “The Democrats are using the court system to go after and prosecute, criminally, a political opponent,” Scott said. “They’re just thugs trying to stop Trump from being able to run for president.”

“The judge’s daughter is a big Democrat fundraiser,” he continued. “Everybody involved in this is part of the Democrat machine. It looks horrible.”

Read more: https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4659565-rick-scott-doubles-down-on-attacks-against-judge-merchans-daughter/

[Think. Again.]

1. Or...

...trump is accused of committing crimes and is being prosecuted for that.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Send him back to Florida.

What a low life!

[Simeon Salus]

3. Everything a Republic politician says is projection.

If they accuse others, then it's exactly because they're doing it themselves.

[aurora the great]

11. Yes!

This is a well established pattern with the Trumpettes. They always do what they accuse others of doing. A strange strategy but look how effective, They have persisted in call President Biden family The Biden Crime Family, Hah! Now that is rich as they (The Trumps) operate about as close to a criminal enterprise as anyone who has ever been in government this side of Tammany Hall. That's just my opinion. I could wrong!

[PSPS]

4. Still auditioning for VP

[BaronChocula]

29. Delivering a message for an audience of one

because no one else gives a crap about Judge Merchan's daughter.

[AltairIV]

5. Political operative

He claims the judges daughter is a political operative, yet his actions are clearly so, in addition to demonstrating that he continues to be a first class *sshole.

[Timeflyer]

6. Speaking of greedy, corrupt thugs...

Scott, the former governor of Florida, was previously the CEO of Columbia/HCA — now known as HCA Healthcare, the nation's largest hospital chain. He resigned from Columbia/HCA after the FBI began a probe that ultimately resulted in the company paying $1.7 billion in fines to settle charges of rampant Medicare fraud.

– According to the Miami Herald, “federal investigators found that Scott took part in business practices at Columbia/HCA that were later found to be illegal — specifically, that Scott and other executives offered financial incentives to doctors in exchange for patient referrals, in violation of federal law, according to lawsuits the Justice Department filed against the company in 2001.”
– The comments represent a major shift for Scott, who has long apologized for the company’s behavior.
– He even apologized in an FAQ section on his website: “I’ve made mistakes in my life. And mistakes were certainly made at Columbia/HCA,” he said on the website.

– “I was in charge and even questioned by authorities. But that’s not what matters,” Scott said in a 2010 campaign ad. “What matters is that the company made mistakes and as CEO I take responsibility and learn from it.”

– According to federal investigators, the hospital company “systemically defrauded” Medicare, Medicaid and other federal healthcare programs, while paying kickbacks to its physicians.
Florida Democratic

– In 2010, during his first run for Florida governor, Scott sought to head off questions about his corporate record by saying that he took responsibility for issues at Columbia/HCA, even though he insisted that he was not aware of any wrongdoing at the time.

– Scott made a similar claim in 2018, when he first sought his U.S. Senate seat, cutting an ad saying he “took responsibility” for what happened at the hospital company and claiming that it was the mark of a leader.

Florida Democratic Party

[dalton99a]

8. +1

[GB_RN]

12. Not Just The Largest Hospital Chain...

But the largest for profit hospital chain in the country and it also owns several hospitals in the UK.

HCA bought one county-owned hospital here in NC a few years ago, on a no-bid contract. Almost immediately, medical staff and other employees started leaving in droves. Complaints about care shot up. Now, HCA has the hospital in major trouble.

HCA is also known for patient dumping and shutting down hospitals in…let’s say “less profitable” areas…leaving those citizens high and dry.

A coworker who has worked at HCA facilities in the past, said of HCA, “[t]he only people HCA hates more than their patients are their employees.”
I can easily believe it, based on what I know of the company’s business practices that push “shareholder value” over patient care and employees. Fucking immoral bastards.

[aocommunalpunch]

7. LMAO

A rabid animal says what again?

[ScratchCat]

9. From a guy who got wealthy stealing from the tax payers, no less

Its funny, a judges daughter somehow "taints" the judges impartiality. But its perfectly fine for a judge who owes her job to the exact person in front of her who is now under indictment for dozens of felonies to hear a case?

These folks don't even make any sense, and the media wont even call them on it. Hell, there should have already been an outcry from the legal community so loud that Judge Cannon had no choice but to recuse. Crickets....

[Blue Owl]

10. Bat Boy Attacks Democrat Machine

?1

[SoFlaBro]

17. Whenever I hear the MAGA fuckstains use "Democrat" instead of the proper "Democratic", I know they are a shit-for-brains

Troglodyte

[Blue Owl]

25. Yup -- they identify themselves as part of the "right wing agenda"

[NCDem47]

27. NOT Photoshopped

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[Blue Owl]

30. Uncanny resemblance!

[cactusfractal]

13. Not Ginni Thomas, though... nt

[Oopsie Daisy]

14. Oh my... he want's to be Trump's VP pick so bad!

He's got his head so far up Trump's butt, he can see what Trump had for breakfast.

[liberalgunwilltravel]

15. Go home!

Go home, Skeletor. Nobody here cares what lies you have to tell.

[republianmushroom]

16. Rick trying to impress trump for that VP spot.

[apnu]

28. The correct answer.

Rick is desperate for the job.

[BradBo]

18. That freak show is married to Frances Annette Holland. She must be a money hungry piece of shit.

[ms liberty]

19. He really wants the veep job

[oasis]

20. Go stick it, Tricky Rick!

[Aviation Pro]

21. Keep digging, you bald-headed fuck

Kill any seniors lately?

[Vinca]

22. I think the Internet should resurrect Scott's Medicare fraud. He should have gone to jail.

[Traurigkeit]

23. Lawyers for Justice Merchan's daughter taking in evidence and playing out line for Rick Scott to strangle himself

[OldBaldy1701E]

24. "Scott was in New York City on Thursday to support Trump..."

Remember that, Florida. Your representative is in New York instead of helping you. Nice job of being there for the people.

You give bald people a very bad name. At least wear a bad toupe`...

[BumRushDaShow]

26. And apparently it was not just him playing hooky

Stupervillan and Vance were also there - https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/05/13/trump-hush-money-criminal-trial/trump-allies-attack-cohen-00157626

[OldBaldy1701E]

33. Well, that orange gibbon demands an audience.

And those half-wits are happy to oblige. They have no idea that Frump will never treat them as anything other than useful vermin. Once their usefulness is over, they will be tossed to the four winds.

[maxsolomon]

31. So? Merchan has bent over backwards for Trump in this trial.

His conduct won't be grounds for appeal, but they'll do it anyway. Endless funds for lawyers.

[Owens]

32. Trump's kids are political operatives

I don't hear him complaining about nepotism.

[Seinan Sensei]

34. "Political operatives" ... ?

Oh, really?
"One of the nation’s leading experts in legal ethics, New York University Law Professor Stephen Gillers, said the gaps in disclosure about the clients of [Supreme Court] justices’ spouses fuel public doubt." (Politico)
Brett Kavanaugh’s wife is a former George W. Bush White House aide
Even the name of Jesse Barrett's firm is unavailable on his wife’s disclosure statement.
And then there's Ginni and Clarence.

[SKKY]

35. And you are an elected official spending taxpayers money to travel outside your constituency...

...for a photo op to defend an indicted criminal. These two things ARE NOT the same.