Hi everyone is 4 o'clock in New York with less than two weeks to go before he

makes history by becoming the first

ex president of these United States to ever stand trial on criminal charges

Donald Trump is turning to a tactic straight out of a mobster's playbook. The ex president going

after the daughter of the New York judge, Judge Juan Mershahn, who was overseeing

the criminal hush money case. In typical Trumpian fashion, his attacks

have been filled with filming at the mouth,

rage, and bluster, and conspiracy theories

with a dash of disinformation in there for good measure. The ex-president accusing the

judge's daughter of sharing a photo of Donald Trump behind bars on social media.

Court officials quickly knock that down, but Trump hasn't stopped going after the

judge's daughter he has posted about her at least four times since Tuesday morning

Trump's attacks began one day after Judge Mershon imposed a gag order on Donald Trump

prohibiting him from lashing out against witnesses, jurors, court staff, and

prosecutors, although Donald Trump can make comments about the judge

and Albin Bragg. Trump dancing around his gag order with an appalling attack on

the judge's family is part of a pattern for Donald Trump. We who cover

him are all too familiar with it by now. Trump attacks anyone and everyone who's

part of any process that seeks to hold him accountable, especially when he gets nervous

about it. And inevitably, threats, intimidation, and even violence ensue. The situation is so dire and

so troubling, so unprecedented, and such a deep and obvious threat to the rule of law that a sitting judge is taking the extraordinary step of speaking out.

That's Federal Judge Reggie Walton, a stalwart conservative appointed by President

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