'I can't talk about them???' Trump rages at strengthened gag order

Ex-President Donald Trump reacted Tuesday to a new order demanding that he stop attacking family members of people involved in his hush money trial — by unleashing another furious attack on the judge who issued it.

“I was just informed that another corrupt New York Judge, Juan Merchan, GAGGED me so that I can not talk about the corruption and conflicts taking place in his courtroom with respect to a case that everyone, including the D.A., felt should never have been brought,” he wrote on Truth Social.

A gag order in the trial, set to start April 15 and involving hush money payments allegedly made to an adult movie actress to keep quiet about an affair, has been in place for several days and bans Trump from talking about jurors, witnesses and court staff.

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On Monday night it was extended to include their families.

The extension follows several attacks made by Trump that targetLoren Merchan, the daughter of Judge Juan Merchan, who runs a political consultancy firm which has Democratic Party clients.

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Trump has said this makes her a “rabid” opponent of his and that it makes the trial against him biased.

The judge is not covered by the gag order.

“They can talk about me, but I can’t talk about them???” Trump ranted Tuesday.

“That sounds fair, doesn’t it? This Judge should be recused, and the case should be thrown out. There has virtually never been a more conflicted judge than this one. ELECTION INTERFERENCE at its worst!"

Experts said the judge had worried that witnesses in the trial could be frightened out of testifying against Trump over concerns that he might target their relatives with attacks.

Past posts by the ex-president aimed at judges and prosecutors in other trials have resulted in multiple threats from his supporters, including a woman in Texas who was arrested after allegedly making death threats to the judge in Trump's federal election interference case.

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