Donald Trump cited numerous legal scholars in blasting Justice Juan Merchan for ruling he will be sentenced in the Stormy Daniels hush money case just 10 days before his inauguration. 

Merchan said the Republican president-elect may appear for sentencing in New York on January 10 either in person or virtually.

While the judge said he is unlikely to jail Trump, 78, and could give him an 'unconditional discharge' leaving him free of fines and probation, Trump was irate in a pair of posts to Truth Social Friday night.

He named ten legal analysts who he said called the 'Witch Hunt' of a case 'nonexistent' and then called it 'nothing but a Rigged Charade.'

He then referred to 'Acting' Justice Merchan as 'a radical partisan' and called the sentencing decree 'knowingly unlawful' and 'against our Constitution.' 

'If allowed to stand, [it] would be the end of the Presidency as we know it,' Trump added.

He says that 'Merchan has so little respect for the Constitution that he is keeping in place an illegal gag order on me, your President and President Elect, just so I cannot expose his and his family's disqualifying and illegal conflicts.' 

Trump is furious about not being 'allowed to defend myself,' calling it a violation of his First Amendment rights. 

He then suggested the case should've disappeared, much as Special Counsel Jack Smith's did. 

'While Deranged Jack Smith was "sent packing" back to The Hague, after losing all of his politically manufactured cases against me, Merchan, who is far worse and even more corrupt than Smith in his fight for my hopeless Political Opponents, just cannot let go of this charade,' he said. 

Trump finished: 'Is it because of his conflicts and relations that he keeps breaking the Law? This has to stop! It is time to end the Lawfare once and for all, so we can come together as one Nation and, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!'

In a dramatic filing on Friday afternoon the judge denied Trump's motion to dismiss the case and throw out the guilty verdict against him.

Merchan wrote that this was the 'most viable solution to ensure finality' while also allowing Trump to continue his appeal.