Former President Trump on Tuesday slammed a New York judge overseeing hush money criminal trials, saying it was unfair for others to be able to “talk” about him after the judge expanded the gag order in the case. .
“The corruption going on in his courtroom, Juan Marchan, another corrupt judge in New York State, gagged me so I could talk about a case that everyone, including the DA’s office, felt I should never talk about. “I have just been informed that I cannot speak about the conflict,” Trump wrote on Tuesday. in post In real social. “They can talk about me, but I can’t talk about them???”
“Don’t you think that’s fair? This judge should be removed and the case thrown out,” he added. “Virtually no judge has been more contradictory than this judge. Election interference at its worst!”
Judge Juan Melchan handed down the verdict On Monday night, the former president’s gag order was expanded to limit attacks on Marchand’s daughter, Lauren, a Democratic political consultant.
“This pattern of attacks on the families of the trial jurists and lawyers serves no legitimate purpose,” Machan said in his ruling. “This is a warning to those assigned or called to participate in the proceedings that not only they, but their families as well, are on a ‘fair footing’ against the defendant’s vitriol.” It only instills fear.”
The initial gag order in the case restricted his public comments about jurors, witnesses and “families of attorneys and staff,” but the family members of Marchand and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D) was not applied to.
Machan’s new gag order will also include his and Bragg’s families at the request of the district attorney.
Lauren Marchan is an executive with the progressive political consulting firm Authentic Campaigns, and is an executive with Vice President Harris, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York, and Biden, President Trump’s main opponent in 2024. He worked on campaigns for various Democratic Party leaders, including:
In a social media post last week, the former president responded to an X (formerly Twitter) account that initially appeared to belong to a judge’s daughter and used a photo illustration of the jailed Trump as its profile picture.
The New York State Office of Court Administration (OCA) announced last week that the account is no longer associated with the judge’s daughter, adding that her daughter deleted the account about a year ago.
Mr. Trump’s lawyers previously asked the judge to recuse himself from the case because of his daughters’ work, but Mr. Marchand rejected that request after seeking guidance from the state’s Judicial Ethics Advisory Board. did.
His lawyers indicated Monday that they plan to file a new motion asking the judge to dismiss.
President Trump faces 34 charges in the hush money scandal, and his trial is scheduled to begin on April 15th. The charges are that the former president illegally falsified business records when he paid former fixer Michael Cohen to adult film actress Stormy Daniels. to cover up his affair ahead of the 2016 election. He has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
The former president has attacked other judges and their families in other cases.
In a civil fraud trial that concluded with a $464 million verdict earlier this year, Trump claimed that the judge’s wife and son wanted to see the former president go to prison or that the trial would cost him money. accused of profiting from the
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