Former President Donald Trump blasted the judge overseeing the hush money case against him in New York and criticized the judge’s daughter on Wednesday — one day after Trump was hit with a gag order in the case.
Trump accused Judge Juan Merchan of “suffering from an acute case of Trump Derangement Syndrome” and said Merchan’s daughter “makes money by working to ‘Get Trump’” in a string of posts on his social media platform Truth Social.
Merchan imposed a gag order on Trump on Tuesday that restricted the presumptive GOP presidential nominee from speaking publicly about witnesses in the case, staff of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, court staff, family members of staff, and prospective jurors.
The gag order specifically left open the ability for Trump to speak about Bragg, and it did not appear to limit Trump from speaking about Merchan or his daughter specifically. Merchan has discretion over how to enforce the order, and he has not at this stage attempted to limit Trump from speaking about him or his daughter despite Trump targeting them as early as last summer.
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