Manhattan's Acting Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan has been described as a 'no-nonsense judge' who wouldn't hesitate to jail someone for a breach of a gag order
Posted on 04/02/2023 12:29:53 PM PDT by shadowlands1960
-Trump could be gagged by a Manhattan court on Monday ahead of hearing.
-His legal team is considering hiring a First Amendment lawyer, a source said.
-It comes as Trump prepares to fly to New York to be formally arraigned
Donald Trump's legal team is preparing for a New York judge to slap a gag order on the former president on Monday, DailyMail.com can reveal, a day before he is due to be arrested in Manhattan.
On Sunday morning, Trump's campaign announced that the former president would make a speech at his Mar-a-Lago home on Tuesday evening after returning from New York.
That could now be in doubt.
But it did not change his Sunday schedule. He headed to his West Palm Beach golf club where he could be seen playing the course accompanied by one of his lawyers, Lindsey Halligan.
At the same time it emerged that his legal team will lodge a motion to immediately dismiss the case against him.
'We will take the indictment. We will dissect it,' Trump's attorney Joe Tacopina told CNN on Sunday morning.
'The team will look at every, every potential issue that we will be able to challenge, and we will challenge.
'The Trump legal team is considering adding a First Amendment lawyer to the effort to combat this and will fight it all the way.'
Breaking the gag order could trigger a fine of $1000 and a prison sentence of as much as 30 days, under New York law.
The extraordinary move to potentially silence a candidate for president will likely enflame Trump's supporters as he prepares to fly out of his Florida home.
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You know that rat is gonna gag him then leak like a sive the Democrat friendly bits.
Seems like he enjoys a lot of nonsense
Just the fact this indictment was leaked is a crime, a felony in fact. I’ve heard of no search for the leakers.
Talk about election interference
I imagine the supreme court will weigh on this; I don’t think gagging the speech of a presidential candidate will sit well with any of the justices, but I could be wrong of course, I often am.
Because he knows that Trump would come out and give a press conference about all of this BS and this Bragg picked piece of crap “judge” doesnt want Trump to get any benefit out of this
Accompanied by DJT VP pick
Dims discombobulated.
Splody heads all over.
What would be the justification for granting a gag order?!
There is no doubt this is a political prosecution. The left is willing to do anything to prevent Trump from getting into office.
They have more things planned for when Trump beats this unlawful prosecution.
Probably keeping the jury pool ‘pure’..
How is a gag order even legal? It is not. It’s as clearly a violation of the First Amendment as anything could be.
The prohibits a defendant from speak in his own defense in a public forum. Friggin Nazi shit is what it is. The judge looks like a major pederast to me, a creep, a ne’r do well, a villain and Evil doer.
I wanna Trump say anything he wants any time.
I would say “bring it”. Their names and addresses can be released too.
Literally… How can you take away somebody’s FREE SPEECH RIGHTS
when they haven’t been convicted of a crime yet??
Especially when they’re in officially campaigning for a high-level office??
He looks a light on his feet.
Just another Spanish Inquisitor, brought to America to try to rule the Gringos again by evil and torture.
Man’s a foreigner who should never sit in judgement of an American.
He looks a bit light on his feet.
Trump should do rally after rally
Standing next to the podium, not saying a word.
Another speaker saying essentially everything he would say.
Wouldn’t that be something.,.
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