New York Judge Juan Merchan — who's presiding over Donald Trump's hush money case — imposed a gag order on the ex-president last week which included banning him from attacking witnesses, prosecutors and jurors. However, it left out the judge and his family — and Trump has taken advantage of that. On Saturday night, Trump launched into his fourth attack on the judge’s daughter Loren Merchan for her ties to a political consultancy, which he claims makes the case against him biased. He 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 - THERE IS NO CASE, THERE IS NO CRIME. "Andy McCarthy, Jonathan Turley, and all Legal Experts and Scholars universally agree that this is a case that should have never been brought. IT IS A POLITICAL, ELECTION-INTERFERING WITCH HUNT, JUST LIKE ALL OF THE OTHER HOAXES, HEADED UP AND COORDINATED BY THE DOJ, AGAINST THE POLITICAL OPPONENT OF CROOKED
Joe Biden IN ORDER TO HELP GET THE WORST PRESIDENT IN THE HISTORY OF THE
United States RE-ELECTED!” 0Trump added a link to a
New York Post article entitled , Dem clients of daughter of NY judge in Trump hush money trial raised $93M off the case. The Guardian's Hugo Lowell responded to the former president's post via X, saying, "Trump did not post a photo of Judge Merchan’s daughter — he posted a link to a NY Post story and the link preview included a photo of the daughter. But it’s just not credible at this point to say that Trump doesn’t know what he’s doing." However, MSNBC's Katie Phang quickly replied to Lowell, tweeting , "He knows exactly what he's doing." Legal analyst and University of
Alabama law professor Joyce Vance shared a screenshot of Trump's post via X, writing , "You can't have a legal system with integrity & the ability to counteract you if you're a wannabe dictator. That's why Trump is trying to delegitimize our institutions." READ MORE: 'Hater': Trump attacks Judge Merchan’s daughter again — this time by name Vance's fellow legal analyst and former
FBI counsel Andrew Weissmann also reacted to Trump's post by suggesting that the court, "1. tighten the bail release conditions ASAP. 2. Warn that jail will result from threatening ANYONE while out on bail, or posting about witnesses, jurors, court or prosecution families. 3. Enforce- that is what it means to treat likes alike. The foundation of the rule of law." Former Watergate prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks added , "Tighten the gag order to cover judge's daughter and enforce that." Why 'timing' of the judge’s gag on Trump is unusual but 'not accidental': legal expert A
Republican congressman laid into his right-wing colleague Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) Sunday for her push to remove the House speaker. Greene made a move to oust Mike Johnson (R-LA) from the role earlier this month after the Speaker supported passing a House spending bill that includes aid for
Ukraine. Though she introduced it, no vote has yet been scheduled on the motion to vacate the speaker's seat. Speaking to CNN’s Dana Bash, Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) condemned the move as “idiotic.” Bash had asked him if he believed Greene would follow through on her threat. “I can't speak for her, obviously,” he said. “She has introduced it. She has not yet made it privileged but, as I said the day that she introduced it, it's idiotic and it's not going to actually help advance the cause that she believes in. ALSO READ: TikTok disinformation is no more dangerous than this
Fox News disinformation “In fact, it undermines our House Republican majority. Look, voters enacted a House Republican majority because they wanted a check and balance on the Biden administration. They wanted to stop the reckless out-of-control spending that increased by 5 trillion in just two years and gave us record inflation. They didn't like the disastrous withdrawal out of
Afghanistan, and they saw the disastrous foreign policy decisions that the Biden administration has made when it comes to
Iran. “ … Infighting does nothing to help advance any of those issues or policy positions. And in fact, that undermines our majority.” Johnson took over as speaker in October last year after the right-wing faction of the Republican Party forced out Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and sparked a chaotic effort to replace him. Watch the video below or at this link. CONTINUE READING Show less Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH) said Sunday that he would not buy Bibles being sold by former President
Donald Trump . During an interview on CBS' Face the Nation , guest host Ed O'Keefe asked Turner about the former president's decision to profit off the sale of Bibles on Easter. "I gotta ask,
President Trump this past week unveiled what he calls the God Bless the
USA Bible, which not only has the words of scripture in it, but also the text of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and a few other things," O'Keefe explained. "Do you think it's appropriate for the former president, for the likely Republican nominee, to be selling such a product?" Turner, however, dodged the question by attacking President Joe Biden's White House. ALSO READ: 'Don't have enough': Wealthy Trump allies balk at helping Donald pay legal bills "I think I'm more concerned about the
White House restricting the ability of children to put religious symbols on Easter egg, Easter eggs for the Easter egg roll at the White House," he opined. "I can't imagine that we're certainly being in a situation where the Biden White House is restricting, especially that of children, their ability to express their religious freedoms." "Okay, but you wouldn't buy a copy of this Trump Bible , would you?" O'Keefe pressed. "I'm not writing a check for that," Turner confirmed. Watch the video from CBS below or at this link. CONTINUE READING Show less Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) said Sunday that Americans should be "incensed" over a
Democratic plan to table the impeachment of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in the Senate. During an interview on Fox News, guest host Jason Chaffetz asked Blackburn about Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-LA) intentions to send Mayorkas' impeachment articles to the
Senate for a trial. "Yes, and on Wednesday, we expect them to come to us," Blackburn explained. "We will receive the articles. We will be sworn in. Each senator is sworn in into the court of impeachment." "We should move forward at that point with the impeachment trial or a committee of impeachment," she continued. "But what we're hearing is for the first time ever in our nation's history, Chuck Schumer is wanting to table the impeachment articles. "Every
American should be incensed by this." ALSO READ: A criminologist explains why Judge Cannon must step away from Trump trial immediately Blackburn accused the secretary of "doing Joe Biden's bidding." "He should stand for his impeachment trial as instructed by the Constitution of the United States," she concluded. Just years earlier,
Republicans in the Senate effectively tabled the nomination of Merrick Garland for
Supreme Court justice. There is no record of Blackburn expressing outrage at that time. Watch the video below from Fox News. CONTINUE READING Show less