Nicolle Wallace Throws Out Script In Disgust After Trump Attacks ‘Judges and Their Kids’
MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace was so disgusted over Donald Trump’s posts about judges and their families that she tossed her script in the air on Friday’s Deadline White House.
Trump posted disparaging comments about Judge Juan Merchan and his daughter to Truth Social over the past several days. Thursday, Trump went a step further and named Merchan’s adult daughter. Trump referred to her as a “rabid Trump hater” who represents “Radical Liberals” as a political consultant.
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 flinging 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 because of threats for judges and their kids more times than I could count 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, began, “We all have to understand that from the first time that the former president began his attacks — vicious attacks — on the federal courts and the state courts and their judges, his objective was to delegitimize those courts so that when and if they ruled against him in the various matters that he’s been charged with, then at least his followers, if not a good part of the nation, would dismiss those rulings against him as having been politically inspired and motivated.”
Judge Luttig added that the people who could stop Trump have “acquiesced” to his bullying thus far.
“Acquiesce, meaning no one, not a single person in a position of responsibility to address this issue, has done so for want of courage and want of will. And until or unless we as a nation address this issue, then we’re careening toward the effective end of the rule of law in America,” Judge Luttig said.
Watch the clip via MSNBC.
