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Trump blasts judge and his daughter after gag order

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In this courtroom sketch from March 25, 2024, Judge Juan Merchan presides during a hearing about the trial of Donald Trump over charges that he falsified business records to conceal money paid to silence porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016, in Manhattan state court in New York. [Reuters]

Donald Trump lashed out Wednesday at the New York judge who put him under a gag order ahead of his April 15 hush-money criminal trial, suggesting without evidence that the veteran jurist was kowtowing to his daughter's interests as a Democratic political consultant. The former president objected in particular to what he said was her specious social media photo showing him behind bars.

Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, posted on social media that the gag order issued Tuesday was "illegal, un-American, unConstitutional." He said Judge Juan M. Merchan was "wrongfully attempting to deprive me of my First Amendment Right to speak out against the Weaponization of Law Enforcement" by Democratic rivals and urged him to step aside from the case.

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