Hours before former President Donald Trump‘s arraignment, Trump’s son, Don Trump Jr., posted a picture of the judge’s daughter. Trump Jr. called his father’s arraignment a “hand-picked Democrat show trial” just hours before the judge ruled on a potential gag order for the former president.
Trump Jr. posted a Breitbart News article to his Truth Social page, implying Judge Juan Merchan couldn’t be impartial in the case. The news story alleges that Merchan’s daughter worked for the Biden/Harris campaign in 2020. The story kept an image of the judge’s daughter in the thumbnail. Her company, in fact, had done work for the campaigns of numerous Democrats, including Biden and Harris.
“Seems relevant… yet another connection in this hand-picked Democrat show trial. The BS never ends folks,” Trump Jr. wrote in the post.
Hours after the post, Merchan decided not to place a gag order on Trump. He did, however, order Trump not to incite political violence during the trial. Trump has repeatedly questioned New York City officials in public since his indictment was revealed.
The assistant district attorneys in the case claimed Trump had repeatedly “threatening our city, our justice system, our courts and our office.” They pointed to Trump’s Truth Social posts, including a doctored picture of him swinging a bat at Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg.
Hours after the ruling, Trump seemingly disregarded the judge’s warning during a speech at his private residence in Mar-A-Lago.
“I have a Trump hating-judge with a Trump-hating wife and family whose daughter worked for Kamala Harris and now receives money from the Biden-Harris campaign,” Trump said. “It’s right out of the old Soviet Union. That’s where we are.”
