特朗普在纽约封口费刑事案件中发布禁言令后袭击法官和他的女儿
【中美创新时报2024 年 3 月 28 日讯】（记者温友平编译）唐纳德·特朗普周三猛烈抨击纽约法官，后者在4月15日的封口费刑事审判之前对他下达了禁言令，在没有证据的情况下暗示这位资深法学家作为民主党政治顾问向他女儿的利益低头。这位前总统特别反对他所说的她在社交媒体上拍摄的他在监狱里的似是而非的照片。美联社记者MICHAEL R. SISAK 对此进行了下述详细报道。
共和党推定候选人特朗普在社交媒体上发帖称，周二发布的禁言令是“非法、非美国、违宪的”。他说，胡安·M·默昌（Juan M. Merchan）法官“错误地试图剥夺我根据第一修正案所享有的权利，公开反对民主党对手将执法武器化”，并敦促他退出此案。
检方要求的禁言令禁止特朗普代表他发表或指示其他人就封口费审判中的陪审员和潜在证人发表公开声明，例如他的律师变身的宿敌迈克尔·科恩和色情明星 暴风雨丹尼尔斯。它还禁止任何旨在干扰或骚扰法院工作人员、检方团队或其家人的言论。
它并不禁止对默昌或其家人发表评论，也不禁止对曼哈顿地区检察官阿尔文·布拉格(Alvin Bragg)的批评，后者是当选的民主党人，其办公室正在起诉特朗普。
特朗普表示，默昌的女儿的公司曾为拜登总统和其他民主党人进行竞选活动，她“通过努力‘抓住特朗普’来赚钱”，最近在社交媒体上发布了一张假照片，描绘了她看到他入狱的“明显目标” 。他辩称，这些情况使“我完全不可能得到公平的审判”。
特朗普没有链接到这张所谓的照片，但 X 上一个似乎属于 Loren Merchan 的帐户（以前称为 Twitter）在周三早上显示了一张被监禁的特朗普的照片插图作为其个人资料图片。后来改了。 洛伦·默昌 (Loren Merchan) 的咨询公司在之前的社交媒体帖子中已链接到同一帐户。
“所以，让我说清楚，”特朗普在《真相社会》上写道，“法官的女儿可以发布她‘梦想’把我关进监狱的照片……但我不被允许谈论针对我的袭击 ，而疯子们试图摧毁我的生活并阻止我赢得我正在主宰的 2024 年总统选举？”
特朗普继续说道：“也许法官是如此仇恨，因为他的女儿通过‘抓捕特朗普’来赚钱，而当他一次又一次做出对我不利的裁决时，他正在让她的公司和她变得越来越富有。” “这怎么可以允许？”
默昌、他的女儿和纽约州法院系统的发言人留下了寻求评论的信息。布拉格办公室拒绝发表评论。
特朗普发布的由三部分组成的《真相社会》帖子是他对禁言令的第一反应。他对默昌的女儿以及她与民主党政治的关系的关注与去年律师敦促法官退出此案时的论点相呼应。该法官还在 2020 年竞选期间向民主党事业捐赠了几笔总计 35 美元的小额捐款，其中包括给拜登的 15 美元。
默昌当时表示，州法院道德小组发现洛伦·默昌的工作对其公正性没有影响。法官在去年 9 月的一项裁决中表示，他确信自己“有能力做到公平和公正”，而特朗普的律师“未能证明存在适当的回避理由，更不用说要求回避了”。
特朗普周三写道：“法官必须立即回避，并纠正去年未这样做所犯的错误。” “如果允许有偏见和自相矛盾的法官继续审理这个虚假的‘案件’，这将是我们的国家变成香蕉共和国的又一个可悲的例子，而不是我们过去认识和热爱的美国。”
在最近的一次采访中，默昌告诉美联社，他和他的工作人员正在努力准备对前总统的历史性首次审判。
“这里没有议程，”默昌说。 “我们希望遵守法律。我们希望正义得到伸张。”
特朗普的封口费案将是他接受审判的四起刑事案件中的第一起，其核心是指控他在公司账簿中错误地将支付给科恩的款项作为律师费记录在公司账簿中，当时这些账目是为科恩在 2016 年竞选期间的工作掩盖事实而支付的。关于特朗普的负面故事。其中包括科恩代表特朗普向丹尼尔斯支付了 13 万美元，这样她就不会公开自己多年前与他发生性接触的说法。
去年 4 月，特朗普对 34 项伪造商业记录的罪名表示不认罪，该重罪可判处最高四年监禁，但不能保证定罪后会导致入狱。他否认与丹尼尔斯发生性关系，他的律师表示，向科恩支付的费用是合法的法律费用，而不是任何掩盖行为的一部分。
在发布禁言令时，默查引用了特朗普对参与其法律案件的人发表“威胁性、煽动性、诽谤性”言论的历史。违规行为可能导致特朗普被判藐视法庭、罚款甚至监禁。
题图：共和党推定候选人特朗普在社交媒体上发帖称，周二发布的禁言令“非法、非美国、违宪”。ANNA MONEYMAKER/PHOTOGRAPHER: ANNA MONEYMAKER/GE
附原英文报道：
Donald Trump assails judge and his daughter after gag order in New York hush-money criminal case
By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press,Updated March 27, 2024
NEW YORK — Donald Trump lashed out Wednesday at the New York judge who put him under a gag order ahead of his April 15 hush-money criminal trial, suggesting without evidence that the veteran jurist was kowtowing to his daughter’s interests as a Democratic political consultant. The former president objected in particular to what he said was her specious social media photo showing him behind bars.
Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, posted on social media that the gag order issued Tuesday was “illegal, un-American, unConstitutional.” He said Judge Juan M. Merchan was “wrongfully attempting to deprive me of my First Amendment Right to speak out against the Weaponization of Law Enforcement” by Democratic rivals and urged him to step aside from the case.
The gag order, which was requested by the prosecution, bars Trump from either making or directing other people to make public statements on his behalf about jurors and potential witnesses in the hush-money trial, such as his lawyer turned nemesis Michael Cohen and porn star Stormy Daniels. It also prohibits any statements meant to interfere with or harass the court’s staff, prosecution team, or their families.
It does not bar comments about Merchan or his family, nor does it prohibit criticism of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, the elected Democrat whose office is prosecuting Trump.
Merchan’s daughter, whose firm has worked on campaigns for President Biden and other Democrats, “makes money by working to ‘Get Trump’” and recently posted a fake photo on social media depicting her “obvious goal” of seeing him behind bars, Trump said. He argued those circumstances make it “completely impossible for me to get a fair trial.”
Trump did not link to the purported photo, but an account appearing to belong to Loren Merchan on X, formerly known as Twitter, showed a photo illustration of an imprisoned Trump as its profile picture Wednesday morning. It was later changed. Loren Merchan’s consulting firm had linked to that same account in a previous social media post.
“So, let me get this straight,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, “the Judge’s daughter is allowed to post pictures of her ‘dream’ of putting me in jail … but I am not allowed to talk about the attacks against me, and the Lunatics trying to destroy my life and prevent me from winning the 2024 Presidential Election, which I am dominating?”
“Maybe the Judge is such a hater because his daughter makes money by working to ‘Get Trump’ and when he rules against me over and over again, he is making her company, and her, richer and richer,” Trump continued. “How can this be allowed?”
Messages seeking comment were left with Merchan, his daughter, and a spokesperson for New York’s state court system. Bragg’s office declined to comment.
Trump’s three-part Truth Social post was his first reaction to the gag order. His focus on Merchan’s daughter and her ties to Democratic politics echoed his lawyers’ arguments last year when they urged the judge to exit the case. The judge had also made several small donations totaling $35 to Democratic causes during the 2020 campaign, including $15 to Biden.
Merchan said then that a state court ethics panel found that Loren Merchan’s work had no bearing on his impartiality. The judge said in a ruling last September that he was certain of his “ability to be fair and impartial” and that Trump’s lawyers had “failed to demonstrate that there exists concrete, or even realistic reasons for recusal to be appropriate, much less required on these grounds.”
“The Judge has to recuse himself immediately, and right the wrong committed by not doing so last year,” Trump wrote Wednesday. “If the Biased and Conflicted Judge is allowed to stay on this Sham ‘Case,’ it will be another sad example of our Country becoming a Banana Republic, not the America we used to know and love.”
In a recent interview, Merchan told the Associated Press, that he and his staff were working diligently to prepare for the historic first trial of a former president.
“There’s no agenda here,” Merchan said. “We want to follow the law. We want justice to be done.”
Trump’s hush-money case, set to be the first of his four criminal cases to go to trial, centers on allegations that he falsely logged payments to Cohen as legal fees in his company’s books when they were for Cohen’s work during the 2016 campaign covering up negative stories about Trump. That included $130,000 Cohen paid Daniels on Trump’s behalf so she wouldn’t publicize her claim of a sexual encounter with him years earlier.
Trump pleaded not guilty last April to 34 counts of falsifying business records, a felony punishable by up to four years in prison, though there is no guarantee that a conviction would result in jail time. He denies having sex with Daniels and his lawyers have said that the payments to Cohen were legitimate legal expenses, not part of any coverup.
In issuing the gag order, Merchan cited Trump’s history of “threatening, inflammatory, denigrating” remarks about people involved in his legal cases. A violation could result in Trump being held in contempt of court, fined, or even jailed.
