A sitting federal judge touched off controversy for commenting on Donald Trump’s gag order in a television interview.

Further, Judge Reggie Walton’s district is Washington, D.C., home to one of Trump’s trials, and he has overseen Jan. 6 trials that are tangentially related to the trial brought against the former president by special counsel Jack Smith, the Washington Examiner reported. 

Walton, a George W. Bush appointee, gave an interview to CNN on Thursday night after Trump called out the daughter of New York Judge Juan Merchan, who will hear the hush-money trial set to begin next month.

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