Trump has been placed under a gag order preventing him from speaking to anyone except judges and prosecutors in his Manhattan finance/election interference case.
CNN reported:
A New York judge has issued a gag order to Donald Trump limiting his statements to potential witnesses in his criminal trial related to hush money payments scheduled to begin next month.
Judge Juan Merchan also said Trump cannot make statements about attorneys, court officials, prosecutors' family members or attorneys trying to interfere with the case. Trump is also prohibited from making statements to potential or actual jurors.
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Merchan wrote that the former president had a history of making “threatening, inflammatory and disparaging” comments toward people at all levels of the judicial system, including jurors.
Trump has also been banned from talking about Stomy Daniels and Michael Cohen, which would drive him crazy. Because those two people, especially Cohen, are his biggest triggers.
Donald Trump is an expert at attempting to taint jury pools, so a gag order should be placed on him while he continues to survive in the national political discourse.
The message the judge is sending is that the former president will not be allowed to turn his Manhattan criminal trial into a circus to use as a rally stage or fund-raiser for his presidential campaign.
This is the moment millions of Americans have been waiting for. Trump, the defendant, faces trial on some of the alleged crimes he committed.
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