Trump Says He’s Appealing ‘Unconstitutonal’ Gag Order Imposed By Hush Money Judge

Judge Juan Merchan, who’s presiding over former President Donald Trump’s “hush money” trial in Manhattan, imposed a gag order on him that his authorized workforce has appealed as “unconstitutional.”

“I just want to let you know that we’ve just filed a major motion in the appellate division concerning the absolutely unconstitutional gag order, where I’m essentially not allowed to talk to you about anything meaningful that’s going on in the case. And many good things are going on with the case. It shouldn’t have been filed,” Trump announced on Thursday.

Trump is topic to a gag order that prohibits him and anybody appearing on his behalf from making public statements about witnesses, their potential involvement, or feedback concerning courtroom workers, DA workers, or their members of the family, Fox News noted. Merchan has discovered Trump in violation of this order ten instances, imposing complete fines of $10,000, and has warned of potential jail time if Trump continues to breach the order.

On Thursday, Trump additionally shared with the media authorized specialists’ detrimental views on the impeachment trial. Alan Dershowitz and Jonathan Turley had been among the many students who criticized the trial.

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“‘This is a Frankenstein case. They took a dead misdemeanor, they attached it to a dead, alleged federal felony and zapped it back into life. So many of us are just amazed to watch this actually walk into court because it’s not a recognizable crime that any of us have seen,” Trump stated, quoting Turley, a legislation college professor at Georgetown University.

“‘I’ve been doing this for 60 years, and I don’t understand what crime he’s been charged with. Nobody understands this. I just don’t get the crime. There’s no evidence of any crime whatsoever. This is a sham,’” Trump continued, quoting Dershowitz.

Trump was again in courtroom Thursday, the place attorneys for his authorized workforce cross-examined grownup movie star Stormy Daniels a day after she dropped a sequence of salacious particulars concerning an alleged sexual encounter.

Daniels recounted to the courtroom that she encountered Trump in 2006 at a star golf match in Lake Tahoe. She claimed they’d sexual relations in Trump’s lodge room through the match, an assertion Trump has constantly refuted in public statements. Additionally, her testimony included an account of her transition into the pornography trade following her earlier work as an unique dancer throughout her teenage years.

Trump lawyer Todd Blanche filed a movement for mistrial following the hours-long testimony which included a number of objections from the protection that Merchan sustained. But the choose denied the movement.

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The case revolves across the alleged falsification of enterprise information. Prosecutors say Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, paid Daniels $130,000 to quiet her claims of the alleged extramarital sexual encounter. Prosecutors allege the Trump Organization reimbursed Cohen and fraudulently logged the funds as authorized bills, and they’re working to show that Trump falsified information with the intent to commit or conceal a second crime, which is a felony.

Legal specialists on Tuesday sounded off on social media that Daniels’ testimony was irrelevant to the case and that it shouldn’t have been admitted into the document.

“I used to try cases for a living. I still have a pretty good sense of what evidence is relevant, what is prejudicial and what is completely over-the-top inadmissible. What the judge is letting in today in the Trump trial in NYC will be remembered as a dark stain on our judicial system, reminiscent of corrupt dictatorships. Shame on the prosecution for undermining our judicial system,” David Friedman, a lawyer and former U.S. ambassador to Israel through the Trump administration, posted on X.

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