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A federal judge issued a gag order on Monday, saying Trump must stop disparaging prosecutors, witnesses and court personnel involved in his upcoming trial on charges of conspiring to obstruct the results of the 2020 election.
“I cannot imagine any other case where a defendant is allowed to call the prosecutor ‘deranged’ or a ‘thug’, and I will not permit it here simply because the defendant is running a political campaign,” the judge said. “That does not give him carte blanche to vilify and implicitly encourage violence against public servants who are simply doing their job.”
The ruling marks the second gag order Trump has received this month. A judge overseeing a civil fraud trial in New York imposed an order barring Trump from bad-mouthing court personnel. The judge issued the order after Trump used social media to identify and malign a court staffer.
An unsigned statement from the Trump campaign said: “President [sic] Trump will continue to fight for our Constitution, the American people’s right to support him, and to keep our country free of the chains of weaponized and targeted law enforcement.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/10/16/trump-gag-order-chutkan/
“I cannot imagine any other case where a defendant is allowed to call the prosecutor ‘deranged’ or a ‘thug’, and I will not permit it here simply because the defendant is running a political campaign,” the judge said. “That does not give him carte blanche to vilify and implicitly encourage violence against public servants who are simply doing their job.”
The ruling marks the second gag order Trump has received this month. A judge overseeing a civil fraud trial in New York imposed an order barring Trump from bad-mouthing court personnel. The judge issued the order after Trump used social media to identify and malign a court staffer.
An unsigned statement from the Trump campaign said: “President [sic] Trump will continue to fight for our Constitution, the American people’s right to support him, and to keep our country free of the chains of weaponized and targeted law enforcement.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/10/16/trump-gag-order-chutkan/
