The former president accused Judge Juan Merchan’s daughter of presenting a conflict of interest, possibly violating a gag order
Donald Trump launched yet another attack against the daughter of New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan, who is overseeing the trial regarding the former president’s alleged hush money payments to adult film actress Stormy Daniels.
In a Truth Social post on Saturday, Trump shared a link to a New York Post article about the judge’s daughter, who has consulted to Democratic campaigns, and wrote, “This is a disgrace to our Legal System. Judge Merchan should be immediately sanctioned and recused, and this fake ‘case,’ only kept alive by the Highly Conflicted Judge, should be completely dismissed right away.” The post included photos of Merchan’s daughter. Rolling Stone has withheld her name as she is not involved in the case.
Trump has attacked the judge’s daughter at least three other times in the last week. The judge issued a gag order on Tuesday — hours after Trump attacked his daughter — barring the former president from discussing witnesses and others involved in the case. On Thursday, District Attorney Alan Bragg requested Judge Merchan clarify whether the gag order applies to Trump’s attacks against the his daughter, and if not, he asked the judge to expand the order to include her and others.
Boy, sure would be nice if there were literally any consequences at all for him, wouldn’t it?
Everyone’s afraid of him because of his mob and death threats, personal career consequences and the possibility that he comes back to power in which case all of the above multiplied.
Letting fear make your decisions is not something a public servant should be doing. Most people call cops out for that sort of thing so why would we tolerate it from a judge who is in an arguably more important position?
Ideally public servants would be more afraid of what the public will do to them if they don’t do the right thing but we’ve let ourselves be “civilized” to the point that they know nothing will happen.
The public hasn’t been violent enough for a long time. No one is scared of the public.
That’s not what fox news says. I’m told if you live in one of those big cities you’ll get murderized immediately, probably by a illegal or on o’ them diverse people!
Yes but that’s vastly different then convincing them that the hand feeding them just enough table scraps to keep from starving is sitting on a hoard.
Because the person being tossed into jail could very well become the most important position. No nation is above political retaliation and the reality of a mob murdering the judge and daughter and then subsequently getting full pardons from that most important position is a non-zero value.
Given the weakness that exudes from Congress on Impeachment, there’s zero ramifications for such a situation. And given the nature of Trump, there’s zero compunction that would ever keep him from this situation arising.
Everyone fears the “official” acts that Trump can carry out. Smarter people understand the non-official actions that he can give a nod to and give comfort to. That’s how truly corrupt governments work, not by official acts, but the non-official ones.
Not ever doing anything to punish him makes it feel like voting is meaningless. Why participate in a system that doesn’t even pretend to hold someone who flagrantly breaks the law and ignores judge’s orders with zero repercussions?
You just hit on one of the main reasons a lot of folks think we are watching the decline of the US to… something. Could be a failed state, could be dictatorship/fascism. Could be a handful of smaller countries. Nobody really knows at this point. The future just doesn’t look real bright, and hasn’t for awhile.
If you stay the course, you will have another Putin. Better to get the retaliation of his constituents out of the way now.
What’s our policy on negotiation with terrorists again?
Sell them arms to fund South American death squads?
You do know who controls Afghanistan now, right?
Exactly. Which is why he’s allowed to do whatever he wants. He’s got America by the balls that it only wished it had, and everyone knows it. So I don’t really know why this is even a big deal to anyone anymore.
It’s just status quo.
Bomb the shit outta them, then use tax payer money to rebuild their homes.
So you mean if the left acts a bit violently we could have better healthcare, higher minimum wage, enshrine abortion rights, transition into green energy, stop funding genocide, toss insurrectionists into jail, and all other good stuff?
Yes and no. The right can act violently with little consequences - witness Oklahoma bombing, Ammon Bundy and the Jan6 insurrectionists. The left, and any associates would have been immediately stomped into the ground, like 6 feet under, because the right has big money backing it.
Timothy McVeigh was killed by the state for Oklahoma.
Oklahoma bombing is a bad example. I’d go with the right wing groups that attack protests held by the left.
“Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing. He is not a good man who, without a protest, allows wrong to be committed in his name, and with the means which he helps to supply, because he will not trouble himself to use his mind on the subject.” - John Stuart Mill, 1867