On Monday, Donald Trump’s lawyers asked the New York judge overseeing the former president’s case hush money trial to lift the gag order against the former president.
Trump’s lawyers asked Judge Juan Merchan to lift the gag order that limited Trump’s out-of-court statements because “the stated grounds for the warrant no longer exist.”
“Now that the trial is over, the concerns expressed by the government and the Court do not justify continued restrictions on President Trump’s First Amendment rights,” Trump attorney Todd Blanch said in a statement released Tuesday.
The former president’s lawyers argued that Trump has a “constitutional mandate for an unrestricted campaign,” citing President Joe Biden. public comments The jury’s decision last week also included “sustained public attacks” by former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen and porn actress Stormy Daniels, both of whom were key witnesses in the trial. The ex-president’s lawyers also pointed to the presidential election debate to be held on June 27.
Trump’s request comes as the Biden campaign has become increasingly vocal about the former president’s legal troubles. NBC News first reported last week Biden’s campaign has explored taking a more aggressive stance.
Biden at a campaign event on Monday called the former president a “convicted criminal”.” “Crackling” after the 2020 elections.
If the court does not grant their request, Trump’s team has asked for an opportunity to file a brief.
The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office declined to comment.
Prosecutors first requested a partial gag order claimed in February that the former president had a “long history” of making public and inflammatory statements about those involved in various legal proceedings against him.
In March, Merchan partially blocked order the former president to “refrain from or direct to others” any known or reasonably foreseeable witnesses, as well as prosecutors, court staff, jurors and potential jurors, about his potential involvement in the case.
That was the order later expanded blocking Trump for comments he made about Merchan’s family and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s family members after the former president attacked Merchan’s daughter on social media.
It was Trump He was fined $10,000 on trial for multiple traffic violations.
In it March 26 order, Merchan noted that the prosecutors decided to apply the traffic jam “during the trial”. The decree did not specify a date for lifting the restrictions.
It was Trump sentenced on Thursday 34 numbers Falsified business records related to the reimbursement to Cohen of hush money he paid Daniels in the final days of the 2016 campaign. Trump has pleaded not guilty in the case and has denied allegations that Daniels had sex with him in 2006. Trump’s sentencing in the case is scheduled for July 11.