Liz Cheney slams 'depraved' Trump for encouraging violence against judge's daughter

Liz Cheney lashed out at Donald Trump Friday after the former president — and her nemesis — yet again attacked the daughter of his judge in the soon-to-start hush money trial.

For the third time in recent days, Trump targeted Loren Merchan in a Truth Social post voicing fury over her supposed connections with Democrats and bolstering his demands that the trial be scrapped.

The posts skirt close to a gag order that forbids Trump from talking publicly about witnesses and court staff — but doesn’t include Judge Juan Merchan or his family.

But Cheney, a former Republican congresswoman who was one of the ex-president's harshest critics from the Republican side of the House and was eventually ousted by her party in Wyoming, said he was intentionally encouraging violence against the woman.

“Trump is repeatedly and maliciously attacking a judge’s daughter on social media,” Cheney wrote on X. “He knows this will bring threats of violence against her and the judge. Trump is depraved and unstable. This unconscionable behavior shows yet again why he is unfit for any office.”

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Trump claims Loren Merchan's position as president of a political consulting firm that has worked with Democrats means the judge is clearly biased against him. His trial, scheduled to start April 15, involves accusations that he arranged for hush money payments to keep details of an affair he had with an adult movie actress from voters in the 2016 election.

In Thursday's Truth Social post, he wrote, “Judge Juan Merchan is totally compromised, and should be removed from this TRUMP Non-Case immediately. His Daughter, Loren, is a Rabid Trump Hater, who has admitted to having conversations with her father about me, and yet he gagged me.”

Officials in Trump's trials have received many threats. Manhattan District Attorney has received death threats and was sent an envelope containing white powder, as was the judge in his fraud case. In Atlanta and Georgia, judges in his election interference case have increased security after being targeted by angry MAGA supporters.