Manhattan Judge Juan Merchan, who is presiding over former President Donald Trump’s business records case, must recuse himself, as his “disqualification is mandatory under New York law,” because of his daughter’s political fundraising activities, lawyer David Schoen, who represented Trump in his second impeachment trial, told Newsmax.

“This judge has no interest in being fair,” Schoen told “Eric Bolling: The Balance.” “The American Bar Association put out a thing last week or so, saying that the lawyers should be standing up for these judges. I don’t have an interest in standing up for a judge who shouldn’t be on a case.”

Schoen said Merchan’s disqualification is mandatory under New York law 100.3 e(1)d(iii), which states “a judge shall disqualify himself or herself in a proceeding in which the judge’s impartiality might reasonably be questioned, including but not limited to instances where the judge knows that the judge or the judge’s spouse, or a person known by the judge to be within the sixth degree of relationship to either of them, or the spouse of such a person has an interest that could be substantially affected by the proceeding.”

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