Former President Donald Trump has been granted an expanded gag order in his upcoming hush-money case after he launched a vitriolic online attack on a judge’s daughter.
New York Judge Juan Melchan said that under a new order, Trump is prohibited from speaking out against his family or the family of Manhattan Attorney General Alvin Bragg, as well as witnesses, prosecutors, court staff and their relatives .
In a post on his social media site Truth Social last week, Mr. Trump called Mr. Murcha’s daughter, Loren, a “fast Trump hater” and called for the judge to be removed from the case. Removed from office.
“Judge Juan Merchant is completely compromised and should be removed from Trump’s non-cases immediately,” the likely Republican presidential candidate said. “His daughter Loren is a rabid Trump hater Or, she admitted talking to her father about me, but he silenced me.”
The second order follows a partial gag order last week that prevented Trump from making public statements about his upcoming hush-money trial, in which he is accused of falsifying business records.
The case alleges that Trump’s campaign paid adult film star Stormy Daniels to keep her from speaking out ahead of the 2016 presidential campaign.
Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung pushed back on the new order, denouncing it as “unconstitutional.”
Judge Merchant said Monday that Trump’s “pattern of attacking the families of presiding judges and attorneys in his cases serves no legitimate purpose. It only creates fear in those assigned or asked to participate in the proceedings because not only do they , and their families, will be ‘fair game’ for the defendants’ vitriol,” he said.
“A threat to the integrity of the judicial process is no longer just a possibility or a reasonable possibility. The threat is very real.”
Earlier this week, Bragg was also involved in the proceedings after Trump turned the focus of his attacks on political consultant Loren Merchan, asking Judge Merchan to expand the gag order — a restriction Legal orders for disclosure of speech or information.
Writing in Truth Social on March 27, the day after the initial gag order was issued, Trump attacked Ms. Merchant for working at a “super liberal Democratic firm” for “Crooked Joe Biden” and Other Democratic politicians work.
He also claimed Ms Mercha had an account on social media site X that included a picture of Mr Trump in prison.
“Judge Juan Murcha Suffering from Severe Trump Derangement Syndrome (His Daughter Represents Crooked Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Adam ‘Crooked’ Schiff, and Other Radical Liberals Person) who just posted a photo of me in jail with her clearly targeted image making it completely impossible for me to get a fair trial) has now issued yet another illegal, un-American, and unconstitutional ‘order’ , because he continues to try to take away my rights.”
The New York State Court responded that the account was fake and that Ms. Mocha had deleted her X profile more than a year ago.
Weekly newspaper According to reports, she is president and partner of Authentic Campaigns, a progressive political consulting firm whose clients include current Vice President Kamala Harris and Democratic politician Adam Schiff.
The multimillionaire businessman and Republican former president has frequently posted about the trials on Truth social networking sites, calling them a “sick witch hunt.”
In a March 29 post, he said the evidence was “overwhelmingly favorable to me” and that it was “extremely bad for a highly partisan and hateful district attorney,” who Referring to Mr. Bragg.
Trump denies 34 felonies listed in the falsification of business records case, which is scheduled to begin in New York on April 15.
It will be his first criminal trial following a civil fraud trial last year, in which he was found guilty of improperly inflating the value of his property and fined $464 million. On Monday, he posted a $175 million bond in the case to prevent his assets from being seized while his lawyers appeal.
Mr Trump will face off against Democratic President Joe Biden in November’s US election in a much-anticipated rerun of the presidential election.
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