The former US president is still forbidden to talk about his New York criminal trial.
Former US President Donald Trump remains banned from speaking about his criminal case in Manhattan, even after the jury’s verdict, the New York Court of Appeals said on Tuesday.
Judge Juan Merchan imposed the gag order on Trump during his trial on 34 counts of “falsifying business records,” which District Attorney Alvin Bragg alleged had somehow violated campaign finance laws and improperly influenced the 2016 election. The jury found the former president guilty on all counts at the end of May.
Trump’s lawyers have protested the gag order from the start, pointing out that it directly impacts his 2024 presidential campaign. The appeals court has ruled that “no substantial constitutional question is directly involved,” so the order can stay in place.
“The Gag Order wrongfully silences the leading candidate for President of the United States, President Trump, at the height of his campaign,” Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung said on Tuesday, adding that the president’s attorneys will “continue to fight” against the “unconstitutional” measure.
According to the campaign, the gag order “violates the First Amendment rights of President Trump and all American voters, who have a fundamental right to hear his message.” The First Amendment of the US Constitution prohibits the government from censoring speech and the press. Trump has called his prosecution politically motivated and a “witch hunt” by Biden and his administration.
The former president’s lawyers have pointed out that President Joe Biden is making Trump’s conviction a centerpiece of his 2024 campaign and will most likely bring it up at the first presidential debate, scheduled for later this month – while his Republican rival won’t be able to respond.
Trump is the presumptive Republican nominee for the 2024 presidential ticket, which will be formally announced at the national convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin next month. However, Merchan has scheduled the sentencing hearing for July 11, just days before the convention is scheduled to start.
Lawfare is being used everywhere to shut people up, just look at NZ…..
Tommy Robinson
TR is a trojan Horse.
Lawfare is being used in New Zealand not only to shut people up, but to BREAK people and families.
Every third child in New Zealand grows up without a father.
Absolute farce
Let’s see if this makes it to the Supreme Court (SCOTUS…not to be confused with SCROTUM, which it more closely resembles…!).
Then…we’ll see if the Supreme Court Justices that Trump appointed really do their job as required by both Law & the U.S. Constitution!
Globalistssuck is correct…as are many of his / her astute observations, and calling it all out for what it is; TYRANNY UNDER COMMUNIST-BASED ZIONISM!
At no point in history have the people trying to silence others been the good guys.
Never ever.
Donald may be banned about speaking it, but I have no such order from the court and the US is outside its jurisdiction. Please send us all the details Daily NZ.
Read somewhere:
With those two, god has given america what it deserves, but he is not done yet.
I read somewhere that President Donald Trump is an ascended master and came to Earth in this life as a “system breaker”: His intent is to smash the corrupt US federal government by revealing its corruption so that it may be corrected and set upon a good trajectory.
It doesn’t matter who votes. It only matters who counts the votes. Joseph Stalin, Soviet Union.
The very same could be said for the USA.