Trump risks breaking gag order AGAIN: Ex-president posts Fox and Friends clip of hosts attacking judge's daughter less than 24 hours after he was warned he could be charged with contempt and JAILED if he did

Donald Trump posted criticism of the daughter of the judge overseeing the Stormy Daniels case just hours after he expanded a gag order to prohibit him from targeting family members.

Trump, who has been fined by another judge overseeing his New York fraud case over a previous gag order, found a new way to go up to the line imposed by a judge. This time, he posted televised criticism by Fox News host Brian Kilmeade and George Washington Law Professor Jonathan Turley.

Trump posted a six-minute video where Kilmeade raised concerns about the daughter of Judge Juan Merchan, who works for an online digital advocacy firm with a roster of Democratic clients.

Kilmeade referenced a 'dispute on whether she did have a picture up on a website with Donald Trump behind bars,' a reference to a claim Trump made himself on Truth Social.  

President Donald Trump posted a clip of a Fox News host blasting Judge Juan Merchan and making accusations against the judge's daughter. It came after the judge expanded his 'gag' order to prohibit attacks on his family members.

'Also, the fact is, the judge's daughter is an activist who works for Kamala Harris?' he said, referencing one of the firm's accounts.

Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg in his own filing this week criticises Trump for posting the image of Loren Merchan, and says attacks are based on 'transparent falsehoods.' 

The post comes from an X account with a small number of followers that is linked to her X account. Bragg calls it a 'fraudulent impersonation,' and cites and article about Trump spreading an 'apparent hoax.'

'That, to me,' is something that if I'm Donald Trump, I'm concerned about the judge has a daughter who feels this way,' he said. 

George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley then chimes in to say he has been 'opposed to gag orders for years,' calling it a 'really controversial order' and 'wrong.'

Trump argues the gag is unconstitutional. He posted a clip of Fox host making some of the same claims about Judge Merchan's daughter

Judge Juan Merchan expanded the gag through an order Monday

He did say that he would 'prefer that Trump leave these attacks, or these issues raised with the judge's family to his counsel. I think that's always the better approach.

Trump lawyer Todd Blanche indeed issued a new filing Tuesday once again seeking Judge Merchan recuse from the face, having been denied in his earlier attempt last August.

Kilmeade also calls the newly expanded gag order 'outrageous.' Merchan expanded the gag at the request of prosecutors, following Trump's attacks on Loren Merchan. Bragg also referenced Trump's online attacks on his own wife, who Trump called 'Trump-hating' after she posted about Trump being 'nailed.' During his New York fraud case, Trump went after Judge Arthur Engoron and his chief clerk.  

 Merchan's original gag order prohibited Trump from statements about prosecutors, court staff, and relatives.

His updated order specifically prohibited attacks on the judge's family members.

'This pattern of attacking family members of presiding jurists and attorneys assigned to his cases serves no legitimate purpose,' Justice Merchan wrote in his ruling. 'It merely injects fear in those assigned or called to participate in the proceedings, that not only they, but their family members as well, are 'fair game' for defendant's vitriol.

Trump 'is hereby warned that any violation of this Order will result in sanctions' under the Judiciary Law, he wrote, a statute that mentions fines and imprisonment.

Court officials said the X account mentioned by Trump was not being controlled by someone other than Loren Merchant. Trump's lawyer argued that in batting down the rumor, the court itself had commented on the judge's daughter.

Trump identified Loren Merchan by name in other posts, posted photo images of her over the weekend, and also posted an image of a pickup truck that had a paint job of President Biden hog-tied on the back.

Trump's post came on a day when also made a post calling Judge Engoron 'crooked' while blasting the $175 court judgment against him that he paid after obtaining a bond.