On Tuesday, New York Judge Juan Merchan issued a gag order against former president Donald Trump, which forbids him from making people statements about lawyers, testimony, and judges in the criminal case involving former president Alvin Bragg, who alleges that the former president fabricated company information regarding payment made to Stormy Daniels by former Trump attorney Michael Cohen prior to the 2016 election.
Trump has previously entered a” not guilty” plea to 34 of the district attorneys’ charges brought against the former president. 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 consequences of those statements included not only concern on the part of the person targeted, but also the task of enhanced safety resources to research threats and protect the individuals and household members thereof.”
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The New York judge claimed Trump’s “inflammatory extrajudicial statements” could threaten the “orderly administration” of the court. As a result, Merchan said the “immanency of the risk of harm is now paramount”.
According to The Daily Wire, while Trump had attempted to delay the start of the New York trial, Merchan, who donated to President Joe Biden’s campaign in 2020, rejected the former president’s arguments to delay the trial on Monday.
Following the New York judge’s gag order announcement on Tuesday, Steven Cheung, a Trump campaign spokesman, told Fox News that Merchan’s gag order was “unconstitutional” and warned that the order prevents the “leading candidate” in the 2024 presidential polls from “engaging in core political speech”, which Cheung said was protected under the First Amendment.
The First Amendment allows President Trump to speak out against this unconstitutional tyranny, according to Cheung, who directed Crooked Joe Biden to choose to indict President Trump in the middle of campaign season. The gag order is worst of all because it violates the civil liberties of over 100 million Americans who support President Trump and have the First Amendment right to listen to and hear his speeches.
