An attorney for former President Donald Trump said Sunday that his client’s criticism of the judge who is presiding over his New York grand jury indictment was not meant to be personal.
At a speech last week just hours after his arraignment in New York, Mr. Trump told supporters gathered at his South Florida Mar-a-Lago club that Judge Juan Merchan is a “Trump-hating judge” and invoked his family, saying he has “a Trump-hating wife and family whose daughter work[ed] for Kamala Harris.”
Another one of Mr. Trump’s attorneys, Joe Tacopina, has previously tamped down suggestions Mr. Merchan is biased.
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