on CNN about comments Trump has made in recent days on the daughter of a judge who is overseeing Trump’s hush-money case in New York.
Mike Howell, who works at the conservative Heritage Foundation, said he asked his organization’s legal team “to carefully consider how these unprecedented partisan comments on a partisan network impact our cases before Judge Reggie Walton.” “This is a problem,” William Shipley, an attorney who has defended Jan. 6 suspects in court, said of the interview.
Walton, who said he and his own daughter had received alarming threats years ago from someone who cited his home address, warned that comments about judges from high-profile individuals could lead to an increase in threats against them. Walton accused another defendant, the one who famously nabbed former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s lectern during the riot, of being “gullible enough” to believe a “lie” about the 2020 election.