The judge in Donald Trump’s hush-money criminal case has expanded the former president’s gag order after Trump assailed the judge’s daughter and made a false claim about her on social media last week.

The judge in Donald Trump’s hush-money criminal case on Monday declared his daughter off-limits to the former president’s rancor, expanding a gag order days after Trump assailed and made false claims about her on social media.

Judge Juan M. Merchan said his original gag order — barring Trump from making public statements about jurors, witnesses and others connected to the case — did not include Merchan’s family members, but his subsequent attacks warranted including them.

“This pattern of attacking family members of presiding jurists and attorneys assigned to his cases serves no legitimate purpose,” Merchan wrote. “It merely injects fear in those assigned or called to participate in the proceedings that not only they, but their family members as well, are ‘fair game,’ for Defendant’s vitriol.”

Merchan’s daughter, Loren Merchan, is a Democratic political consultant. Prosecutors had urged Merchan to clarify or expand his gag order after Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform that Loren Merchan “makes money by working to ‘Get Trump,’” and wrongly accused her of posting a social media photo showing him behind bars.

  • @CoachEnglish
    37•8 months ago

    He can expand it in a knot, He can expand it in a bow, He can throw it over his shoulder, Like a continental soldier, but Don Poorleone still won’t go…

    …unless and until you issue an actual fucking order and not some spineless, pussy bullshit. Do your fucking job, judge, (respectfully) and throw him in jail – at least half of this country has your back.

    • @[email protected]
      5•8 months ago

      at least half of this country has your back.

      If not more, 2/3 of the voting public voted in 2020. Less than 1/3 voted for that McBurger inflated orange pumpkin skin sack. Who in a cult wouldn’t vote for their cult leader? That means less than 1/3 of the country (which is even smaller a population yet when you factor in those not old enough to vote, gerrymandered districts, states with difficult voting laws, and prisoners in states that don’t allow them to vote) has been led astray. Orange bloated walking corpse’s constituent numbers are small like his hands, and thankfully, as people realize that he’s all wind and no substance, continuing to shrink. (Much like his bank account.)