using the same pronoun twice in the same sentence?

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I was going over this article and I found the structure of this sentence interesting:

Mr Trump will never forgive those whom, like Mitch McConnell, the Senate leader, he judges to have failed him by acknowledging Mr Biden’s election victory. Having begun to move against him, they should finish the job.

Is this proper english? It would be good news to me because I always find it awkward when I interrupt my sentence with a long fyi statement, then proceed to continue the original thought without somehow being able to reconnect or reset the original statement (I'm not even sure what that style is called).
So here are my questions:

What is this type of writing called (the structure etc)?
Can I see more examples of this sentence structure where the pronoun is written twice?

fev · Accepted Answer

Let's simplify the sentence so that you can see that both "Mr Trump" and "he" must be there:

[Mr Trump will never forgive those](A) [whom (...) he judges to have failed him](B).

You have (A), the main clause whose subject is Mr Trump and then you have (B), the relative clause modifying the pronoun those, whose subject is he.
You cannot say "I know those whom love", a subordinate clause needs a subject. You need to say: "I know those whom I love".

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