Posted on 03/27/2024 3:47:53 PM PDT by Libloather
A gag order issued Tuesday in the New York hush money case bars Donald Trump from popping off against witnesses, jurors, and "court staff" — but it makes no mention of the judge and members of his family, who remain fair game.
Trump wasted little time exploiting that loophole Wednesday, when he used his Truth Social account to take aim at both state Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan and the judge's progressive daughter, Loren Merchan. The daughter is a Democratic political consultant whose social media has been critical of Trump, including during his administration, when she condemned his family-separation border policy on an account that has since been made private.
Loren Merchan "represents Crooked Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Adam 'Shifty' Schiff, and other Radical Liberals," and "has just posted a picture of me behind bars, her obvious goal," the GOP frontrunner complained in his Truth Social post on Wednesday morning.
The judge's daughter helps run the Chicago-based, progressive political consulting firm Authentic Campaigns, which has worked on campaigns for key Trump rivals, including Biden, Harris, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, and California Gov. Gavin Newsom.
She has no known role in the hush money trial her father will preside over, which is set to begin picking a jury on April 15.
But she remains a repeat target of Trump's ire.
Last August, Trump's lawyers demanded the judge recuse himself from the case in part because of his daughter's political affiliations. The judge declined.
On Tuesday morning, Trump "truthed" that the judge is a "certified Trump Hater" whose daughter is a "senior executive at a Super Liberal Democrat firm."
Merchan's gag order was made public just four hours later.
Then, Tuesday night, far-right activist Laura Loomer posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, that Loren Merchan's X profile picture...
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Michael Cohen. ‘Nuff said. In a real justice system, he would never be allowed to testify.
Trump cannot get a fair trial in NYC. These judges and juries are worse than what blacks faced in the Old South. Trump is being railroaded. Free DJT!
Fair game? With a gag order? How?
They're trying to mute Trump because their case is so flimsy they can't possibly win without manipulations to stifle Trump's defense. Trump wants and needs to keep this and all the rest of his cases front and center before the American people. So what if he uses the judge's politically active and fully adult daughter and mentions her obvious TDS? It's actually quite germane to the subject, ya' know? Trump wants everyone to see the Stalinist lawfare being used by a desperate party that has nothing left but cheating and lies.
They try to gag him, he goes around them. He's a winner, they're losers.
Hat tip to Laura Loomer like her she knows how to make a democrat feel the sting of truth.
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