Donald Trump is assailing the federal judge overseeing the election conspiracy case against him, days after she warned him not to make inflammatory statements about the case.
The former president made posts Monday on his social media network calling U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan "highly partisan" and " VERY BIASED & UNFAIR!" because of her past comments in a separate case overseeing the sentencing of one of the defendants charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.
The judge agreed with Trump's defence team on a looser version of a protective order barring the public release only of materials deemed sensitive, like grand jury material. But prosecutors consider most of the evidence in the case to be sensitive, and she largely sided with the government on what will get that label and protections.
"The people who mobbed that Capitol were there in fealty, in loyalty, to one man -- not to the Constitution, of which most of the people who come before me seem woefully ignorant; not to the ideals of this country, and not to the principles of democracy," Chutkan said, according to a transcript of the October 2022 hearing. "It's a blind loyalty to one person who, by the way, remains free to this day.
"I understand why he's trying to twist her words and use them against her, but I don't think it crosses the line," said Weinstein, now a white collar criminal defence attorney. Trump spoke about the case while he was campaigning at the Iowa State Fair over the weekend, declining to tell reporters whether he would comply with the protective order. He said, "The whole thing is a fake -- it was put out by Biden, because they can't win an election the fair way."
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