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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump's claim about hush-money judge's daughter appears false
A Twitter/X account with a profile picture of Trump behind bars was created in April 2023 in her name. But her known account still exists, under a changed nameJacqueline Sweet
March 27, 2024 | 5:57 pm
Donald Trump made a claim of so-called bias in his New York hush-money trial on Wednesday: the daughter of Juan Merchan, the judge assigned to the case, appeared to have an X account with a profile picture depicting Trump behind bars.
Theres only one problem: the accounts veracity is dubious at best, with a creation date of April 2023. Analysis of the Twitter ID associated with the account shows that Judge Juan Merchans daughter Lorens known Twitter account, that she has used since 2016, had its name changed and was set private at some point last spring.
The same Twitter ID associated with Loren Merchans original Twitter account name, @LorenM426, is now attached to a new name, @LorenM0604, that has a profile picture of Loren Merchan, the same number of followers and posts as the account created in 2016, viewable in archives of the account. It is unclear who runs this account.
Why Merchan changed her user name and went private is also unknown, but it appears to have happened before April 4 last year, when a Breitbart article about her reported that her Twitter account appeared to be deleted, weeks after Judge Merchan was announced as the judge who would preside over what is now likely to be Trumps first criminal trial next month. The account wasnt deleted, however; it had changed user handles, according to the Twitter ID and the archived history of the account.
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Trump's claim about hush-money judge's daughter appears false (Original Post)
catbyte
Mar 27
OP
I really wish people would stop calling it the Hush money case. It takes away the seriousness of his crimes.
Bev54
Mar 27
#1
Yeah. I also wish pundits would knock it off with "thisistheweakestcase" cheerleading.
emulatorloo
Mar 27
#3
Bev54
(10,052 posts)1. I really wish people would stop calling it the Hush money case. It takes away the seriousness of his crimes.
This was election interference covered up by fraudulent business records.
emulatorloo
(44,130 posts)3. Yeah. I also wish pundits would knock it off with "thisistheweakestcase" cheerleading.
Seems pretty straightforward to me and the facts confirm the venal nastiness of Trumps character in black and white.
Hugin
(33,148 posts)6. It's the case TSF is the most afraid of...
His blathering always tends towards it. I guess its because its the first criminal case hes faced.
keithbvadu2
(36,816 posts)2. Donald does not care if it's true or not.
scipan
(2,351 posts)4. Can't post more than 4 paragraphs from the story so
gonna post a tweet with the money quote:
Link to tweet
I wish this was illegal somehow but it probably isn't. Just despicable.
Boomerproud
(7,954 posts)5. Social media run amok. Where are the laws governing this?
NT