Former President Donald Trump will remain gagged during his criminal trial in Manhattan, a New York appeals court ruled Tuesday.
Despite New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan explicitly warning Donald Trump last week that any future violations of his gag order could result in jail time, the ex-president appears to have done so directly on Thursday."A lead person from the DOJ is running the trial," Trump claimed, obviously referring to prosecutor Matthew Colangelo, as Law & Crime reports."So Biden's office is running this trial. This trial is a scam and it's a sham and it shouldn't happen," Trump told reporters...
Former President Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial in Manhattan has been increasingly marked by his Republican allies making trips into New York City to give speeches outside the courthouse, condemning everyone from the prosecutors to the judge to the judge's family — often attacking people who are off limits for Trump himself to attack due to the gag order in place against him. A few of them, like Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), have even admitted they are there to attack witnesses and...
Donald Trump's own political campaign may have just violated the former president's gag order in the hush money cover-up case. Trump campaign press secretary Karoline Leavitt appeared on Fox News, where she was asked about the gag order. "I am gagged," Leavitt said on the conservative news network. ALSO READ: Trump’s Manhattan trial could determine whether rule of law survives: criminologist Jesse Watters asked Leavitt if she's "not allowed" to say what she wants in America.While...
In his remarks outside the courtroom Tuesday, Donald Trump demanded Judge Juan Merchan rescind the tailored gag order placed on him that was designed to ensure the sanctity of the trial and the safety of witnesses, jurors, court staff, and their families."The gag order has to come off," Trump told reporters Tuesday morning, adding his frequent "never been anything like this in the history of our country" claim.Judge Merchan just last week reportedly cited Trump's own words from his own book when...
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Former President Donald Trump may have violated his gag order Monday when he spoke to reporters outside his criminal hush money trial, according a political analyst. Washington Post reporter Aaron Blake raised concerns about Trump's statement regarding Robert Costello, the defense witness whose questionable courtroom antics saw Justice Juan Merchan clear the courtroom so he could chastise him. "You saw what happened to a highly respected lawyer today, Bob Costello," Trump told reporters in...
Donald Trump asks New York’s high court to intervene in fight over gag order in hush money trial
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump is seeking to have New York’s highest court intervene in his fight over a gag order that has seen him fined $10,000 and threatened with jail for violating a ban on commenting about witnesses, jurors and others connected to his hush money criminal trial. The former president’s lawyers filed […]
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Former United States President Donald Trump asked New York's highest court, the Court of Appeals, to remove the gag order imposed on him during his ongoing hush money trial. Judge Juan Merchan, wh
A NY appeals court has affirmed Judge Juan Merchan's gag order for Donald J. Trump in his criminal election interference trial. An appeals court feels Judge Merchan has appropriately identified the Orange Menace as a "significant threat to the integrity" of the proceedings. — Read the rest