Every Twitchy reader knows that the indictment and arraignment of former President Donald Trump is politically motivated. The judge in the case has warned Trump to be careful about what he posts on social media, and the prosecution handed out printouts of “Truths” from Truth Social that they say were meant to intimidate Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
The big social media scandal Tuesday afternoon is Trump’s sons, Eric and Donald Jr., as well as Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene posting photos of Judge Juan Merchan’s 34-year-old daughter. Also posting the photo was the Daily Mail:
Daughter of judge presiding over Trump's hush money case worked for Kamala and Joe Biden https://t.co/lwdMZ0vFds pic.twitter.com/evX3dsHGSm
— Daily Mail US (@DailyMail) April 4, 2023
The Daily Mail reports:
Speculation of political bias is heightening surrounding Donald Trump’s indictment after it was revealed the daughter of the judge presiding over the case worked for Vice President Kamala Harris’ 2020 presidential run and a slew of other progressive campaigns.
Trump railed against Judge Juan Manuel Merchan in a social media rant ahead of his arraignment on Tuesday afternoon with a post claiming the judge is from a ‘family of well known Trump haters.’
Loren Merchan, the 34-year-old daughter of the Manhattan judge, is partner and president of Authentic Campaigns, a progressive digital firm, and worked on several high-profile Democratic campaigns – including for President Joe Biden.
Huh.
There’s a lot of fake outrage on Twitter over the Trump sons trying to intimidate the judge by posting his adult daughter’s photo online.
Journos like @GlennKesslerWP are trying to ban people from sharing this storyhttps://t.co/I1r7xUXKOE
— Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) April 4, 2023
Both Trump sons have now posted photos of the judge's adult daughter. Totally irrelevant — and obviously intended to intimidate. pic.twitter.com/nmYxjGjKIG
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) April 4, 2023
Obviously intended to intimidate … remember, this is the guy the Washington Post counts on to fact-check every claim made by a conservative.
Hey @washingtonpost come get your boy before @CommunityNotes humiliates him again
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) April 4, 2023
Too late?
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) April 4, 2023
Dude is straight-up lying.
What they posted was a news article talking about how she worked for Kamala Harris. Is Kessler suggesting you can't post news articles now?
Community Notes, get to work. https://t.co/Pd5ESFo8R7
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) April 4, 2023
LOL he’s begging community notes to come back.
— Eva • TXLakeGirl (@TXlakegirl2021) April 4, 2023
This is how Glenn puts food on the table. There are seemingly no other options.
— knickerbocker14 (@yankees20211) April 4, 2023
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) April 4, 2023
That's one hell of a reach, Glenn. Even by your pathetic standards.
— Patrick (@PMC713) April 4, 2023
So this is the lefts talking point today ? So far I’ve seen 8 of these. And it’s a huge lie
— Nikki mac🐊🐊🇺🇸 (@Nikkimac187) April 4, 2023
Not irrelevant.
— SazzygirlinCali (@RjbRocklin) April 4, 2023
Why is it irrelevant?
— Check Mark Prime (@PrimeCheckMark) April 4, 2023
Kessler’s cringeworthy tweet. In other news Glenn, “They linked to a news article that has a photo of the judge's daughter.”
— Jeff Cunningham (@cunninghamjeff) April 4, 2023
How is it not relevant that both the judge and his daughter have close ties to and donate to the current administration?
— doug weick (@dhweick) April 4, 2023
Does the Washington post ever get anything right? They posted a news articles. You guys are a bunch of clowns.
— Nobody (@nobody4873) April 4, 2023
Yellow journalism at its finest. Come get him WaPo and get him back behind the firewall so he can pretend he’s legitimate.
— Mr Squirrel (@MortvilleRoyal) April 4, 2023
Totally relevant info you clown.
— Noel Searles 🇺🇸 🍊 (@noelphx) April 4, 2023
You got wrecked the other day. You really want to go there?
— John Tomlin (@303john) April 4, 2023
The Trump sons retweeted the Breitbart story which included the photo. The way these people frame it it sounds like they posted a personal photo of a little girl. Lame.
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Update:
Be careful out there today so as not to get blocked by Tom Nichols:
I’ll block anyone discussing the judge’s family, or anyone in my TL arguing with people trying to discuss the judge’s family. That shit is straight up gangsterism And we’re not gonna be doing that today.
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) April 4, 2023
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Update:
What a hero:
(I removed the photos from their tweets so as not to spread the image further)
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) April 4, 2023
Yeah, that’s why.
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Related:
LOL: Fact checking the fact checker – Glenn Kessler gets utterly owned by Twitter Community Noteshttps://t.co/veXeADnv9K
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) April 1, 2023
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