Republican presidential candidate and former US President Donald Trump attends a press conference at Trump Tower in New York after he was found guilty of falsifying business records to conceal a 2016 affair with porn star Stormy Daniels (Stormy Daniels) was convicted in a criminal trial of payments made to keep him quiet, held at Trump Tower in New York the next day.
Brendan McDermid | Reuters
New York prosecutors told a judge they oppose former President Donald Trump’s request to lift the gag order against him after he was found guilty in a criminal hush-money case.
this Manhattan District Attorney’s Office Asking Judge Juan Merchan to maintain the gag order against Trump “at least until the July 11 sentencing hearing” and “the resolution of any post-trial motions.”
Trump’s lawyers this week asked the inquisitors to lift the gag order, saying the grounds for the gag order no longer existed as the trial ended last Thursday in which Trump was found guilty of falsifying business records related to a 2016 hush-money payment. Convicted on all 34 felonies.
But in a new letter to Merchants, prosecutors said the gag order was “not only designed to avoid threats to the fairness of the trial itself… but is also based on the court’s wider obligation to prevent actual harm to the fairness of the trial” ‘.
Trump was fined a total of $10,000 for violating a gag order during his trial in Manhattan Supreme Court.
The order prohibits him from making or directing others to make public statements about witnesses in the case, prosecutors, court staff, jurors, potential jurors and the family of Merchant and District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
In a letter to Merchant asking to lift the gag order, Trump’s lawyers said the order limits his First Amendment rights while running for president as the presumptive Republican nominee.
The attorneys wrote “in light of” last week’s campaign event outside the trial court on behalf of President Joe Biden, Biden’s comments about the jury’s verdict in the case, and “in light of” President Trump’s unfettered campaign promotions The constitutional mandate is even stronger.
Lawyers also cited the June 27 debate between Trump and Biden.
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