Former president Donald Trump is facing charges in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s legal case, alleging that the former president fabricated business information regarding payment made to Stormy Daniels by former Trump attorney Michael Cohen prior to the 2016 poll.
Trump has previously entered a” not guilty” plea to the Manhattan district attorney’s lawsuit against him for 34 counts. Trump has even denied having a relationship with Daniels.
Merchan announced on Tuesday that the former chairman would not be permitted to make public comments against witnesses, such as Cohen, who will be testifying against Trump, with jury selection for the trial set to taking place in New York City on April 15. The joke order even prevents Trump from making comments against any counsel in the prosecution besides Bragg, any of the district attorney’s employees, any court workers, and any judges.
The New York determine claimed that Trump’s previous comments regarding people in Bragg’s event “were threatening, aggressive, denigrating”, and presented” a enough threat to the administration of justice”.
According to Merchan,” the effects of those statements included not only the person’s fear of the person being targeted, but even the use of more security resources to research threats and safeguard their victims and their families,” she wrote.
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The New York determine claimed Trump’s “inflammatory illegal statements” could harm the “orderly management” of the jury. As a result, Merchan said the “immanency of the risk of injury is now fundamental”.
According to The Daily Wire, while Trump had attempted to delay the start of the New York test, Merchan, who donated to President Joe Biden’s plan in 2020, rejected the former president’s claims to postpone the test on Monday.
Following the New York court’s gag order notification on Tuesday, Steven Cheung, a Trump campaign spokesman, told Fox News that Merchan’s joke order was “unconstitutional” and warned that the purchase prevents the “leading candidate” in the 2024 presidential polls from “engaging in primary political speech”, which Cheung said was protected under the First Amendment.
In a politically motivated effort to derail his candidacy,” Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg, at the direction of Crooked Joe Biden, chose to indict President Trump in the middle of campaign season,” Cheung said.” The First Amendment allows President Trump to speak out against this unconstitutional tyranny. The gag order is worst of all because it violates the civil liberties of the over 100 million Americans who support President Trump and have access to and listen to his speeches.
