U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan has become an ultimate villain for Donald Trump and his allies, accused of being unfair to the MAGA cause and especially those who showed up to storm the Capitol building on his behalf.
Trump’s lawyers have tried to have her removed from overseeing his Washington, D.C., criminal case, with the former president calling her “a TRUE TRUMP HATER” who is “incapable” of giving him a fair trial. In court, she warned Trump directly to “take special care in your public statements about this case.” Months after that, she was targeted by “swatting” at her home.
But in court, Chutkan has shown an atypical amount of patience and grace when dealing with Jan. 6 defendants during run-of-the-mill hearings that go largely unnoticed.