Posted on 05/04/2023 12:35:58 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Former President Donald Trump has been banned from talking — or posting — about certain evidence uncovered in the Manhattan District Attorney’s “hush money” criminal case.
Justice Juan Merchan handed down the ruling Thursday during a Manhattan Supreme Court hearing after prosecutors sought a protective order to restrict Trump, 76, from publicly revealing any evidence handed over to his legal team as the case unfolds.
The judge — who insisted he was not imposing a “gag order” — said Trump was prohibited from talking about evidence specifically obtained by the DA’s Office and turned over to the defense to prepare for trial, including people’s names or personal information.
“I am not going to do anything … to infringe on his First Amendment rights,” the judge said.
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Trump, I f any kind of man and if unconstitutional, should ignore it.
Judges are meant to be ignored and often..
All President Trump needs to do to thwart this ruling, if HE finds it necessary to elocute on a Court-prohibited particular matter, is to have surrogates speak the words.
As an example, he could have one of his sons on stage with him at a rally, and he could stand on the podium a short distance from the lectern, and as his son speaks, he could remain silent but make all those great expressions and nods of his head that he is so well known for, intimating his agreement through body language, or maintain a completely stoic expression.
Or, simply be at some location other than where his spokesperson, surrogate, or son is speaking the forbidden words.
Bragg took one very dubious misdemeanor, for which the statute of limitations was long past, and somehow transmogrified it into 34 felonies because of “some other crime” but he won’t disclose what that other crime is. I guess Trump has to wait until the first day of the trial to find out.
Maybe that’s why the legal challenge to change the venue was filed in the first place — to open up another avenue to circumvent this gag order.
Right. The judge says he won’t gag Trump as he gags him.
Vile filth.
Justice Juan Merchan born in Columbia and came here with his illegal alien parents.
Deport Merchan NOW!
Everything the left wants us to know they will leak to the press
Exactly my thought. Why would the DA be so concerned about him discussing the “evidence“ if it was a solid as they claim
180.
It did happen. Someone was leaking the goings on at the Grand Jury before the indictment was even issued. That’s a felony.
The older I get, the more I see of this world, the more I am convinced that there will not be a return to law and sanity without the shedding of lots and lots of blood.
Hopefully it will all be from THEIR side.
You can't make this stuff up.
Hush Money/No Disclosure in the same thread.
So it’s not a gag order because that would limit the prosecution too. This is a one-way order against Trump.
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