I was just telling someone else about this story
On the night of April 3, the trashy disinformation site Gateway Pundit posted a “bombshell” about Judge Merchan’s daughter, who apparently worked at a company whose clients included the Biden-Harris campaign. The next day, the right-wing site
Breitbart picked up the story and quoted from a tweet from Trump’s son Eric. Later, Donald Trump Jr. shared a link to the
Breitbart piece—which prominently displayed what appears to be a picture of the judge with his daughter—on Twitter and Truth Social,
calling her “yet another connection in this hand picked democrat [sic] show trial.” Junior left the implication hanging there, but when Trump Sr. returned to Florida last night, he connected that final dot, asserting that the judge’s daughter is now personally on Joe Biden’s campaign payroll.
There is no subtlety here. Trump and the people who fashioned this non-story into a “bombshell” knew exactly what they were doing. Making such accusations while spreading the daughter’s picture around the right-wing media swamps is dangerous. But Trump, his
failsons, and the family’s various enablers were all sending a message to the judge:
You have a lovely daughter, Your Honor, and we know who she is and where she is.
Talk about abusing power!