Trump tests limits of gag order with post insulting two likely witnesses in criminal trial

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Trump has been barred from making public statements about probable trial witnesses ‘concerning their potential participation in the investigation or in this criminal proceeding’

Days after a New York judge expanded a gag order on Donald Trump to curtail “inflammatory” speech, the former president tested its limits by disparaging two key witnesses in his upcoming criminal hush money trial as liars.called his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, and the adult film actor Stormy Daniels “two sleaze bags who have, with their lies and misrepresentations, cost our Country dearly!”

The gag order also barred Trump from making public statements of any type about jurors, court staff, lawyers in the case or relatives of prosecutors or of the judge. Trump is allowed to make critical comments about the judge himself and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. Gregory Germain, a professor at Syracuse University College of Law, described the latest post as a “close call” unlikely to result in Trump being held in contempt.

“That’s exactly what a gag order doesn’t want you to do before trial when a potential jury could be influenced,” he said.

 

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