Trump names and attacks judge's daughter Loren Merchan days after gag order

Two days after Judge Juan Merchan issued a limited gag order on March 26, 2024 barring Trump from commenting on witnesses, jurors, and relatives of court staff and counsel in the hush-money case, Trump posted on Truth Social that 'the Judge's daughter is allowed to post pictures of her "dream" of putting me in jail' and suggested Merchan was biased because his daughter 'makes money by working to "Get Trump."' The next day, March 28, Trump escalated by naming her directly, writing that 'Judge Juan Merchan is totally compromised, and should be removed from this TRUMP Non-Case immediately' and that 'His Daughter, Loren, is a Rabid Trump Hater, who has admitted to having conversations with her father about me,' without providing evidence for the claim. Manhattan prosecutors subsequently asked the court to clarify that the gag order's protections extended to the judge's family, and Merchan expanded the order on April 1 to explicitly bar comments about relatives of court staff and the district attorney. Legal commentators described the posts as testing the boundaries of the order by targeting a judge's family member during an active proceeding.

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