The former president accused Judge Juan Merchan's daughter of presenting a conflict of interest.

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.

  • snooggumsEnglish
    111·
    8 months ago

    Not ever doing anything to punish him makes it feel like voting is meaningless. Why participate in a system that doesn’t even pretend to hold someone who flagrantly breaks the law and ignores judge’s orders with zero repercussions?

    • d00phy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      8 months ago

      You just hit on one of the main reasons a lot of folks think we are watching the decline of the US to… something. Could be a failed state, could be dictatorship/fascism. Could be a handful of smaller countries. Nobody really knows at this point. The future just doesn’t look real bright, and hasn’t for awhile.

      • BolexForSoup@kbin.social
        1·
        8 months ago

        You’ve been hearing that the country is going to fracture since basically Bush Jr. We’re approaching almost 25 years of this line.

        I think we have serious existential threats to this country, but breaking up is not one of them