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Tuesday, April 21, 2026

Trump targets Judge Tanya Chutkan in federal election case, claims ... - NBC Southern California

  • Former President Donald Trump railed against the judge overseeing the federal case charging him with illegally conspiring to subvert the 2020 election results.
  • Trump attacked U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan as "highly partisan" and "very biased & unfair!" adding, "She obviously wants me behind bars."
  • Trump also vented rage at the Georgia prosecutor who is expected to bring her state-level election interference case before a grand jury this week.

Former President Donald Trump kicked off the week of his expected fourth indictment by railing against the judge overseeing the federal case charging him with illegally conspiring to subvert the 2020 election results.

In a pair of social media posts just after midnight on Monday, Trump attacked U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan as "highly partisan" and "very biased & unfair!"

"She obviously wants me behind bars," Trump wrote on Truth Social at 1:14 a.m. ET.

That post was made in reference to Chutkan's remarks from an October sentencing hearing for Christine Priola, one of the hundreds of people to face criminal charges related to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.

"The people who mobbed that Capitol were there in fealty, in loyalty, to one man," Chutkan said, according to a transcript of the hearing. "It's a blind loyalty to one person who, by the way, remains free to this day."

Trump posted that quote in all caps less than an hour after midnight.

Later Monday morning, Trump vented rage at the prosecutor in Fulton County,...



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