New York Daily News

Trump stalker rips favorable ruling

- BY SHAYNA JACOBS

PRESIDENT TRUMP’S eccentric longtime stalker pitched a fit as his fouryear-old case was sent to veterans court Friday — even though the switch could get him mental health services and spare him a criminal conviction.

Frank Monte, 47, a Navy veteran with a long history of courtroom rants and outbursts, was shut down by Justice Mark Dwyer as he voiced displeasur­e with the transfer of his case.

“May I say on the record I object to veterans court?” said Monte, who was surrounded by a team of court officers at the hearing in Manhattan Supreme Court.

As court officers tried to escort Monte out of the courtroom well, he stalled and tried to argue — and his lawyer and the judge were helpless to stop him.

Monte was released from custody in May 2017 after bouncing around for 3½ years between jail and mental health facilities.

“Justice! It's terrible!” he whined as he headed out of the courtroom.

Monte, who has been found unfit for trial several times since his February 2014 arrest for stalking and harassing Trump and his relatives, complained after his hearing that veterans court “is two things. It’s drug court and mental health court.”

Monte began trying to contact Trump in 2008, prosecutor Kenn Kern said at the time of his arrest.

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