{"id":2240050,"date":"2024-05-08T12:11:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T16:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mike-johnson-rips-well-known-democrat-judge-for-threatening-trump-with-jail-time\/"},"modified":"2024-05-08T12:12:36","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T16:12:36","slug":"mike-johnson-rips-well-known-democrat-judge-for-threatening-trump-with-jail-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mike-johnson-rips-well-known-democrat-judge-for-threatening-trump-with-jail-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Johnson criticizes a prominent Democratic judge for threatening Trump with imprisonment"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmike-johnson-rips-well-known-democrat-judge-for-threatening-trump-with-jail-time%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2240050&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>House Speaker Mike Johnson criticized Judge Juan Merchan for imposing a gag order \u200don Trump, hindering his defense during the \u200c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-judge-sets-date-for-trumps-first-criminal-trial\/\" title=\"Trump's initial criminal trial date fixed by New York judge\">hush-money trial<\/a>. Johnson\u200d condemned Merchan&#8217;s actions as an \u200dattempt to suppress Trump&#8217;s constitutional right\u200b to\u2063 defend himself. The judge&#8217;s repeated fines and threat of\u200d jail time for violating the gag order have sparked controversy. House Speaker Mike Johnson has denounced Judge Juan Merchan for restricting Trump&#8217;s defense with a gag order in the hush-money trial. Johnson views this as an infringement on Trump&#8217;s constitutional right to self-defense. The judge&#8217;s fines and jail threat for defying the\u2064 gag order are causing significant debate and controversy.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) delivered blistering remarks on Tuesday against the New York judge overseeing former President Donald Trump\u2019s hush-money trial.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Louisiana Republican blasted Judge Juan Merchan during a press conference following a Republican conference meeting. Johnson accused Merchan, who has fined Trump 10 times for gag order violations, of undercutting Trump\u2019s ability to defend himself in the middle of a presidential campaign.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe judge, who is a well-known Democrat, is pursuing an indefensible gag order on President Trump,\u201d Johnson said, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/government\/congress\/johnson-merchan-not-serious-judge-after-threatening-trump-jail-time-election?utm_source=justthenews.com&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=external-news-aggregators\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Just The News<\/a>. \u201cThink about the magnitude of that. He\u2019s trying to override President Trump\u2019s constitutional right to defend himself against the constant smears of his political opponents, in an election year.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Merchan issued a gag order against the former president in March that barred Trump from making remarks on potential witnesses, jurors, court staff, and attorneys. The judge later extended the gag to cover members of his own family after Trump pointed out Merchan\u2019s daughter\u2019s history working for elected Democrats.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The judge fined Trump nine $1,000 fines for violations of the gag order last week. On Monday, the judge fined Trump another $1,000 fine and said the former president could face jail time if he continued to flout the court\u2019s gag order.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Merchan <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/06\/nyregion\/trump-trial-gag-order-contempt.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">told<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  Trump that jailing him could be necessary to \u201cprotect the dignity of the justice system.\u201d The judge said he understood \u201cthe magnitude of such a decision,\u201d noting: \u201cYou are the former president of the United States, and possibly the next president as well.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Johnson ripped the judge over the threat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cYou cannot call yourself a serious judge and threaten a presidential candidate with jail time when he defends his reputation in public in the middle of a campaign. And I think everybody of good conscience understands that,\u201d the speaker said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1715184052205000&#038;usg=AOvVaw30mpznqHO0I3crFOdodkQW\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Republican speaker also accused the Biden justice system of a double standard against Trump in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/from-witch-hunt-to-happy-birthday-trumps-busy-arraignment-day-in-miami\/\" title=\"Trump's eventful day in Miami: From 'Witch Hunt' to 'Happy Birthday'\">classified documents case brought<\/a> by special counsel Jack Smith.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cBiden, of course, willfully retained and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-fumes-over-special-counsel-report-highlighting-bidens-poor-memory\/\" title=\"White House angered by report on Biden's 'weak recollection\">disclosed classified material<\/a> but because he is, quote, an elderly man with a poor memory, un-quote, it was decided that DOJ would not be bringing charges,\u201d Johnson said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWhat the American people see, and I mean, this is across the country, this isn\u2019t just red states, it\u2019s blue states as well. They look at this and they see an incredible double standard. It\u2019s just blatantly on display. It\u2019s the weaponization of our justice system. Every single person of good conscience and common sense can see that clearly and it\u2019s disturbing to them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) strongly criticized Judge Juan Merchan, overseeing Donald Trump\u2019s hush-money trial. Johnson accused the New York judge of hampering Trump&#8217;s rights, citing repeated fines for gag order breaches. The rebuke came in a press briefing after a Republican conference, highlighting Merchan&#8217;s actions as detrimental to Trump&#8217;s defense<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":2240051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/05\/Mike-Johnson.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2240050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/05\/Mike-Johnson.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2240050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2240051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2240050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2240050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2240050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}