Gag Order Against Trump Is Expanded to Bar Attacks on Judge’s Family

[jonny]

How can anyone support this bullying blow-hard??

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/01/nyreg...tml?ugrp=u&unlocked_article_code=1.hU0.ETPs.cr6zH9Ns31qe&smid=url-share

[vision63]

I think for his purposes, he wants to be held in contempt. That he'll benefit from it.

[SteveG]

Merchan called those defense arguments “farcical,” describing Trump’s comments as “dangerous rhetoric.”


A New York judge expanded former President Trump’s gag order on Monday to limit his recent barrage of attacks against the judge’s daughter.

Justice Juan Merchan’s five-page ruling excoriated Trump over his series of Truth Social posts attacking the judge’s daughter since the former president was placed under a gag order last week.

“This pattern of attacking family members of presiding jurists and attorneys assigned to his cases serves no legitimate purpose. It merely injects fear in those assigned or called to participate in the proceedings, that not only they, but their family members as well, are ‘fair game’ for Defendant’s vitriol,” Merchan wrote in his ruling.

Among others, Trump’s previous gag order limited his public statements about jurors, witnesses, and “the family members of any counsel or staff member,” but it didn’t extend to family members of Merchan or Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D).

At Bragg’s request, Merchan has now expanded the order to include them, further restricting Trump’s rhetoric as his April 15 trial date approaches.

Trump had repeatedly directed his rage at Merchan’s daughter, Loren, who served as an executive at a progressive political consulting firm whose clients have included prominent Democrats like President Biden, Vice President Harris and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y). The former president, in one post, shared a link with a photo of Loren Merchan.

[bfd]

Better get that go bag ready, Trump, you might be needing it sooner than later.

[$tevie]

I'd like to see even just one judge treat Trump like a regular criminal. He keeps getting one pass after the other, and I'm sick of it.

[N-OS X-tasy!]

$tevie wrote:
I'd like to see even just one judge treat Trump like a regular criminal. He keeps getting one pass after the other, and I'm sick of it.

Amen.