The former president accused Judge Juan Merchan’s daughter of presenting a conflict of interest, possibly violating a gag order

Donald Trump launched yet another attack against the daughter of New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan, who is overseeing the trial regarding the former president’s alleged hush money payments to adult film actress Stormy Daniels.

In a Truth Social post on Saturday, Trump shared a link to a New York Post article about the judge’s daughter, who has consulted to Democratic campaigns, and wrote, “This is a disgrace to our Legal System. Judge Merchan should be immediately sanctioned and recused, and this fake ‘case,’ only kept alive by the Highly Conflicted Judge, should be completely dismissed right away.” The post included photos of Merchan’s daughter. Rolling Stone has withheld her name as she is not involved in the case.

Trump has attacked the judge’s daughter at least three other times in the last week. The judge issued a gag order on Tuesday — hours after Trump attacked his daughter — barring the former president from discussing witnesses and others involved in the case. On Thursday, District Attorney Alan Bragg requested Judge Merchan clarify whether the gag order applies to Trump’s attacks against the his daughter, and if not, he asked the judge to expand the order to include her and others.

  • Flying Squid
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    423 months ago

    There were some people, I can’t remember who they were, that regularly chanted about locking someone up…

    • Optional
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      143 months ago

      Oh yeah but then they drained the swamp, mmm hmmm. Which was nice.

      • Flying Squid
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        153 months ago

        Sort of like how Elon was going to rid Twitter of bots once he bought the company.

        • @takeda
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          53 months ago

          Well, he doesn’t need bots to manipulate Twitter anymore.

            • @[email protected]
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              fedilink
              53 months ago

              Yes, but he let a sink in. Don’t forget about the sink. And on top, nobody understands manufacturing better, he invented space travel and he’s the most american American that can americans.

              From Africa.