Trump risks violating gag order by demanding the Stormy Daniels hush money judge RECUSE himself and claims his daughter ‘posted a picture of him behind bars’

Donald Trump continued to attack the judge in the Stormy Daniels case and his daughter, a day after Judge Juan Merchan issued a gag order banning him from commenting to court staff or family members.

Trump backtracked on his demand that Judge Merchan, who also oversaw a Trump Organization tax fraud case, recuse himself from the case, accusing him of suffering from “Trump Derangement Syndrome.”

Trump called the joke “un-American” and a violation of his First Amendment rights, and brought up his daughter’s work as a political consultant for a digital company with a string of Democratic clients.

That came hours after Merchan issued his order banning Trump from making statements about a “reasonably anticipated witness” as well as comments about counsel, court personnel or “the family members of any counsel or staff member.”

“Judge Juan Merchan, who is suffering from an acute case of Trump Derangement Syndrome (whose daughter represents Crooked Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Adam “Shifty” Schiff and other radical liberals), just posted a photo of me behind bars, her in front obvious purpose, and makes it completely impossible for me to get a fair trial) has now issued yet another illegal, un-American, unconstitutional ‘order’ while he continues to try to take away my rights,’ Trump began.

He referred to an online post by journalist and conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer, who wrote that an X account owned by Loren Merchan had an image of Trump behind bars as its profile photo.

The account she linked was created in 2013 and had just four posts, and it could not immediately be independently confirmed as hers. The account’s posts are secure and it has 63 followers.

By late Wednesday morning, the image had changed from an image of Trump to a childhood image of Vice President Kamala Harris.

Trump has also condemned Merchan.

“By issuing a cruel ‘Gag Order,’ this judge is attempting to wrongfully deprive me of my First Amendment right to speak out against the weaponization of law enforcement, including the fact that Crooked Joe Biden, Merrick Garland and their Hacks and Thugs follow and follow me around the country and obsessively try to persecute me, while everyone knows I’ve done nothing wrong!’ He wrote.

Trump claimed Merchan’s daughter posted a photo of him behind bars, but the recent account had only 63 followers and the profile photo quickly changed to a young Kamala Harris.

After Trump accused the judge’s daughter of posting a photo of him behind bars, an account opened last year changed the profile photo to a young Kamala Harris

Trump’s lawyers tried to force Merchan to withdraw from the case last year, but a state ethics committee concluded he could stay, and Merchan himself determined his refusal “would not be in the public interest ‘, after it turned out that he had made a contribution. $15 for Joe Biden’s campaign.

Trump’s lawyers cited Loren Merchan’s advocacy work at the time.

Merchan imposed a gag order on Trump on Tuesday after using his social media platform to attack the prosecutors in the Stormy Daniels case, the judge and his daughter.

The joke forbids the former president from making statements about witnesses, prosecutors or their relatives if the intention is to interfere in the case.

It comes after Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg sought the order on Feb. 22 by citing Trump’s “long history” of pursuing witnesses, prosecutors and judges.

Merchan is taking a page from New York Judge Arthur Engoron, who issued a series of silence orders against Trump after attacks on himself, says AG Letitia James, and the judge’s chief clerk.

“The uncontested record reflecting defendant’s prior out-of-court statements constitutes a sufficient risk to the administration of justice,” he wrote.

“His statements were threatening, inflammatory and derogatory,” wrote Merchan, who has a reputation for not allowing disruptions in his courtroom. His four-page order refers to attacks on “a family member.”

Trump has found ways to undermine the jokes, as he has done with his four criminal trials — blasting his efforts to muzzle him as a form of censorship.

The latest order prevents Trump from commenting on witnesses, attorneys and other court personnel, the judge or family members, although it does allow him to continue bashing District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

In his order, Merchan notes that “the freedom of speech guaranteed by the First Amendment and the state’s interest in due process” are involved in the remedy plaintiffs seek.

It holds that Trump both made and “directed others” to make public statements about “known or foreseeable witnesses” in the case, which would apply to former Trump fixer Michael Cohen, who Trump has ratted named.

Restricts out-of-court statements about cousnel to the prosecutor, judicial staff, counsel’s family members, or staff with the “intent to materially interfere with” the work on the case. It also applies to statements about any prospective jurors or jurors in the proceedings.

It all came after Trump scolded the man overseeing the Stormy Daniels trial a day after Judge Juan Merchan set an April trial date despite an attempt by Trump’s lawyers to dismiss the case.

Trump was with Merchan in a Manhattan courtroom on Monday as lawyers argued over the start of his first criminal trial, now set for April 15. On Tuesday, he launched multiple online attacks on judges and prosecutors, even calling Merchan a “distinguished-looking man.” .’

He targeted Merchan’s daughter and complained about the treatment of former Trump Organization chief Allen Weisselberg, who pleaded guilty this month to lying under oath without consenting to cooperate. It comes after his repeated attacks in his separate fraud trial in New York prompted Judge Arthur Engoron to impose a ‘gag’ order banning him from attacking his chief clerk.

“Judge Juan Merchan, a very distinguished looking man, is nevertheless a true and certified Trump Hater who suffers from a very severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome,” Trump wrote.

‘In other words, he hates me! His daughter is a senior executive at a super-liberal Democratic firm that works for Adam “Shifty” Schiff, the Democrat National Committee, (Dem)Senate Majority PAC and even Crooked Joe Biden,” Trump wrote.

Trump’s lawyers tried to force Merchan off the case last year by citing his daughter’s work for Authentic Campaigns, a digital advocacy firm, but were denied.

Trump then went after Merchan for his role in overseeing the Weisselberg case. (He also oversaw the criminal fraud case of former Trump campaign chairman Steve Bannon).

Merchan showed his tough side when Weisselberg was sentenced, telling him that if he hadn’t already agreed to a five-month prison sentence, he would have gone for something “much bigger.”

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Trump, 77, complained about the matter without saying directly that he was referring to the longtime Trump director first appointed by his father, Fred Trump, calling the 76-year-old Weisselberg “elderly and not in good health.” .

“He recently served as judge in an unrelated trial against a long-term employee, elderly and not in good health. This judge treated him cruelly and told him: either you cooperate or I will put you in prison for fifteen years. He pleaded guilty and went to jail for very minor crimes, highly unusual, spent four months in Rikers, and now they’re after him again, this time for alleged lies (doesn’t look like a lie to me!), and they threatened him again by 15 years if he doesn’t say something bad about “TRUMP.” He is devastated and scared! These land-destroying villains and criminals have no case against me. WITCH HUNT!’

Trump was in Merchan’s courtroom as his team tried to dismiss or delay the trial on charges of falsifying corporate records related to the $130,000 payment to porn star Stormy Daniels, who claims she had an affair with Trump. They said they needed more time after prosecutors released more than 100,000 pages of evidence.

But Merchan rejected the plea after a tense hearing in which he sparred with Trump’s attorney Todd Blanche.

Prosecutors “went so far beyond what was expected of them that it’s actually strange that we even take the time here,” the judge said.

Merchan considered Trump’s motion last year to have him withdraw from the case, addressing arguments about his daughter, including the claim that she could “benefit financially” from the court’s decisions.

‘The suspect has not shown that there are concrete, or even realistic reasons for considering the refusal appropriate, let alone that it is required on these grounds. The speculative and hypothetical scenarios offered by the suspect fall well short of the legal standard,” Merchan wrote.