Donald Trump has finally met his match in this judge, methinks. Juan Merchan is not taking any b.s. from the orange-tinted defendant in the case before him. Trump, per usual, doesn’t know when to keep his mouth shut. He attacked the judge’s daughter on social media this morning and WHAM! a few hours later he’s got a gag order issued. Look on the bright side, Donald, you can use it to fundraise.
Judge Juan Merchan, a very distinguished looking man, is nevertheless a true and certified Trump Hater who suffers from a very serious case of Trump Derangement Syndrome. In other words, he hates me! His daughter is a senior executive at a Super Liberal Democrat firm that works…
— Donald J. Trump Posts From His Truth Social (@TrumpDailyPosts) March 26, 2024
The tweet ends “for Adam “Shifty” Schiff, the Democrat National Committee, (Dem)Senate Majority PAC, and even Crooked Joe Biden. He was recently the judge on an unrelated trial of a long term employee, elderly and not in good health. This judge treated him viciously, telling him either you cooperate or I’m putting you in jail for 15 years. He pled, and went to jail for very minor offenses, highly unusual, served 4 months in Rikers, and now they are after him again, this time for allegedly lying (doesn’t look like a lie to me!), and they threatened him again with 15 years if he doesn’t say something bad about “TRUMP.” He is devastated and scared! These COUNTRY DESTROYING SCOUNDRELS & THUGS HAVE NO CASE AGAINST ME. WITCH HUNT!”
The judge, Juan M. Merchan, imposed the order at the request of the Manhattan district attorney’s office, which brought the case against Mr. Trump. The district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg, has accused Mr. Trump of covering up a potential sex scandal during and after his 2016 campaign.
The ruling comes on the heels of Justice Merchan’s setting an April 15 trial date, rejecting Mr. Trump’s latest effort to delay the proceeding. It will mark the first criminal prosecution of a former American president.
Mr. Trump recently clinched the Republican presidential nomination for the third time, and with three other criminal cases against him mired in delay, the Manhattan case could be the only one to go to trial before voters head to the polls in November.
Under the judge’s gag order, Mr. Trump cannot make, or direct others to make, statements about witnesses’ roles in the case. Mr. Trump is also barred from commenting on prosecutors and court staff as well as their relatives — if the statements were intended to interfere with their work on the case.
In seeking the gag order last month, Mr. Bragg’s prosecutors highlighted Mr. Trump’s “longstanding history of attacking witnesses, investigators, prosecutors, judges, and others involved in legal proceedings against him” — comments that the judge seized on in his ruling.
“His statements were threatening, inflammatory, denigrating,” Justice Merchan wrote in the Tuesday order.
Mr. Trump, for example, has taken aim at Michael D. Cohen, his onetime fixer and one of Mr. Bragg’s main witnesses, calling him a “liar” and a “rat.”
Trump’s going to have to do his Jimmy Cagney impersonation with somebody else. This judge isn’t having it. Plus, to add insult to injury, the Biden-Harris Twitter account just lambasted their opponent.
Biden-Harris campaign statement on Donald Trump’s press conference pic.twitter.com/Eil32P2ikj
— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) March 25, 2024
No blowback so far on Truth Social. Maybe Trump has learned a lesson from his $91.3M fracas with E. Jean Carroll, ya think? Nah. What’s probably happening is Walt Nauta is wrestling the phone away from Donald while Kimberly and Junior try to distract him with a hamberder with his name on the bun, as Lara assures him that the cash is pouring, simply pouring, in under the door, over the transom, and every which way conceivable.
And this will amuse you. Trump is being all high and mighty again. He’s a mega rich dude, once more.
— Donald J. Trump Posts From His Truth Social (@TrumpDailyPosts) March 26, 2024
We are in awe, Donald, as always. Just keep telling yourself what you need to hear. And your lawyers will be elated to hear you brag about your cash as well. That will only help them get paid, which is never a small thing in Trump world.
We’re in awe of former guy? More like ewww.
He needs his mouth to fuse like Mr Anderson,(keneau reeves), in The Matrix in the interview room with the agents. No cakehole? No lies!