Trump Blasts Judge and His Daughter After Gag Order

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.

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, making a fallacious claim about his daughter and urging him to step aside from the case.