'Better hope your daughter saved': MAGA attorney appears to threaten hush money judge
Justice Juan Merchan looks on as Donald Trump attends his criminal trial over charges that he falsified business records to conceal money paid to silence Stormy Daniels in 2016, at Manhattan state court in New York City, U.S. May 30, 2024 in this courtroom sketch.
A right-wing attorney who has issued a bevy of threats in recent months to perceived foes of President-elect Donald Trump appeared to do so again, this time taking aim at the judge who presided over Trump's hush money trial.
Prominent conservative attorney Mike Davis, founder and president of the Article III Project who previously served as chief counsel for nominations to Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, sent his message to Judge Juan Merchan on Friday.
"Dear Judge Juan Merchan: You better hope your daughter Loren Merchan has saved the money she’s raised off your unprecedented, bogus trial of Trump. You may desperately need that to cover your legal expenses for your blatant corruption," he wrote on X.
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That post came hours after he wrote a profane post targeting the same judge.
"Dear Judge Juan Merchan: 1. Go f--- yourself. 2. Go home. Import the third world; become the third world," he said.
Davis has become a vehement defender of Trump in recent years, actively blasting the legal cases against Trump as "lawfare" and making numerous media appearances defending Trump.
Trump earlier in the day avoided jail time after his conviction was unconditionally discharged by Merchan, who Trump again called "highly conflicted" in a Truth Social post that claims "there never was case" and described the prosecution as a "scam."
The sentencing meant Trump is now a convicted felon but he will be given no additional punishment.
