Posting a screenshot of what appeared to be Judge Juan Merchan’s daughter calling for Donald Trump to be locked up, the former president appealed for the justice to recuse himself.
The photo made it “completely impossible for me to get a fair trial” in his hush money case, Trump complained to followers of his Truth Social page.
It was an early test of the mettle of the Colombian-born justice, who is tasked with ruling on perhaps the most consequential and politically fraught trials in recent American history.
Merchan is “highly conflicted’, Trump says
As it would turn out, Loren Merchan had worked at a digital marketing agency that works with Democratic candidates and is said to have advised Kamala Harris’s 2020 presidential campaign, but it was not in fact her profile
