Trump ramps up attacks on judge in hush money case after gag order [View all]
Source: NBC News
March 27, 2024, 3:05 PM EDT / Updated March 27, 2024, 3:29 PM EDT
Less than 24 hours after getting hit with a partial gag order in the New York criminal case involving his alleged falsification of business records, former President Donald Trump repeatedly lashed out at one person who's not covered by the ruling — the judge.
In a series of posts on his social media platform, Trump called Judge Juan Merchan "biased and conflicted" while also taking aim at the judge's daughter for a second day in a row.
In a ruling Tuesday, Merchan noted the impending April 15 trial date and said Trump must "refrain" from “making or directing others to make public statements about known or reasonably foreseeable witnesses concerning their potential participation” in the case, as well as about individual prosecutors and court staff and their family members. The order did not mention the judge and his family members — a loophole Trump exploited Wednesday.
"This Judge, by issuing a vicious 'Gag Order,' is wrongfully attempting to deprive me of my First Amendment Right to speak out against the Weaponization of Law Enforcement," Trump wrote, saying the judge "is suffering from an acute case of Trump Derangement Syndrome" and should recuse himself from the case.
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