Trump Says He'll Become 'Modern Day Nelson Mandela' Over Right to Attack Judge's Daughter

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Trump Says He'll Become 'Modern Day Nelson Mandela' Over Right to Attack Judge's Daughter

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Donald Trump said he's willing to go to jail over the extended gag order Judge Merchan issued over his Stormy Daniels hush money trial.

In a weekend Truth Social blitz, the former president threatened to violate his gag order in the upcoming hush money trial

Donald Trump said Saturday he is willing to go to jail, but not for the crimes he’s accused of committing.

The presumptive GOP candidate said he wanted to violate the expanded gag order against him in his upcoming hush money trial. In fact, he would be willing to make himself a martyr and serve jail time if the judge found him guilty of violating the order.

In a three-part post on his tanking social media company, Truth Social, Trump lashed out at the New York judge who granted the gag order, Juan Merchan, whom Trump has repeatedly targeted in his posts along with Merchan’s daughter for being biased against him.

“IF this Partisan Hack wants to put me in the ‘clink’ for speaking the open and obvious TRUTH, I will gladly become a Modern Day Nelson Mandela – It will be my GREAT HONOR,” Trump wrote.

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He probably also thinks they won’t be able to because “He is a former president, they won’t have any place to put him.” Just put him in solitary for while.

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