MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace was deeply upset by Donald Trump’s comments about judges and their families that she threw her script up in the air during Friday’s Deadline White House.
Trump shared insulting remarks about Judge Juan Merchan and his daughter on Truth Social over the last few days. On Thursday, Trump went further and mentioned Merchan’s adult daughter, labeling her a “rabid Trump hater” and a representative of “Radical Liberals” as a political advisor.
Judge Merchan imposed a gag order on Trump last week, but it does not apply to the judge or his family members.
“So, you know, it’s time to do something different,” Wallace said while tossing her script. “Like, we’re not going to have this conversation again! I have come on the air with breaking news about requests for gag orders due to threats for judges and their kids countless times today before I got ready.” She continued:
And Judge Luttig, I think it’s time…Donald Trump broke the rule of law. We should cover a broken judiciary in this country. Donald Trump managed to delay every federal criminal trial based on facts that he barely denies. Donald Trump managed to enlist the Supreme Court in a delay process, the highest court in the land.
Donald Trump brazenly and repeatedly attacks not just judges. I’ve had the privilege of sitting across not just from you, Judge Luttig, but from Judge Esther Salas, whose son was assassinated by a crazy person. Judges don’t have Secret Service protecting them. They don’t even always have — I mean her child answered the door. What are we going to do different, because Donald Trump sure as hell isn’t changing.
Judge J. Michael Luttig, who testified before the Jan. 6 Committee investigating the Capitol riots, started, “We all need to comprehend that since the former president initiated his aggressive attacks on the federal and state courts, as well as their judges, his aim was to undermine those courts so that if they ruled against him in the various cases he’s facing, then at least his followers, if not a good part of the nation, would disregard those rulings as politically motivated.”
Judge Luttig added that those who could stop Trump have “acquiesced” to his bullying so far.
“Acquiesce, meaning no one, not a single person in a position of responsibility to address this issue, has done so because of lack of courage and will. And unless the nation deals with this problem, we’re moving towards the effective end of the rule of law in America,” Judge Luttig said.
Watch the clip via MSNBC.
