https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/26/nyregion/trump-gag-order-hush-money-trial.html Manhattan prosecutors on Monday asked the judge overseeing their criminal case against Donald J. Trump to prohibit the former president from attacking witnesses or exposing jurors’ identities.
The requests, made in filings by the Manhattan district attorney’s office, noted Mr. Trump’s “longstanding history of attacking witnesses, investigators, prosecutors, judges, and others involved in legal proceedings against him.”
In outlining a narrowly crafted gag order, the office hewed closely to the terms of a similar order upheld by a federal appeals court in Washington in another of Mr. Trump’s criminal cases.
The gag order in the Manhattan case, if the judge approves it, would bar Mr. Trump from “making or directing others to make” statements about witnesses concerning their role in the case. The district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg, also asked that Mr. Trump be barred from commenting on prosecutors on the case — other than Mr. Bragg himself — as well as court staff members.
Although Mr. Bragg carved himself out of the gag order request, the district attorney has received the brunt of the attacks from Mr. Trump and his supporters. In an affidavit released Monday, the head of his security detail listed some of the worst of the dozens of attacks directed at Mr. Bragg last year, including racial slurs and death threats.
In a separate filing, Mr. Bragg placed a special emphasis on the protection of jurors. His prosecutors asked that Mr. Trump be barred from publicly revealing their identities. And although Mr. Trump and his legal team are allowed to know the jurors’ names, Mr. Bragg asked that their addresses be kept secret from the former president.
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If the judge, Juan M. Merchan, accepts the restrictions, he would be just the latest judge to impose a gag order on the former president. There was an order in the Washington case, a federal case that involves accusations that Mr. Trump plotted to overturn the 2020 election. And the judge in Mr. Trump’s civil fraud trial that recently concluded ordered Mr. Trump not to comment on court staff members. In a federal trial in Florida in which Mr. Trump is accused of mishandling classified documents, the special counsel, Jack Smith, is also seeking to protect witnesses. The prosecutors have vehemently opposed an attempt by Mr. Trump’s lawyers to include the names of about 24 potential witnesses in a public filing, claiming that the witnesses could face harassment or intimidation. The prosecutors have even opened a separate criminal investigation of threats made on social media against one of the witnesses. The Manhattan criminal case was the first of Mr. Trump’s four indictments to be filed and is scheduled to go to trial on March 25. Last year, the district attorney’s office accused Mr. Trump of 34 felonies, saying he had orchestrated a cover-up of a potential sex scandal with a porn star that could have hindered his 2016 presidential campaign. Editors’ Picks If You Liked ‘Saltburn,’ Consider This Much Better Movie Dirty Ice May Be Ugly, but It Has One Advantage This Easy Cauliflower Salad Will Brighten Even the Bleakest Days Mr. Trump’s lawyers will be likely to oppose the gag order and could appeal it if Justice Merchan adopts it. A lawyer for Mr. Trump, Todd Blanche, declined to comment on the prosecutors’ proposal, saying that the defense’s court papers spoke for themselves.
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If the judge, Juan M. Merchan, accepts the restrictions, he would be just the latest judge to impose a gag order on the former president. There was an order in the Washington case, a federal case that involves accusations that Mr. Trump plotted to overturn the 2020 election. And the judge in Mr. Trump’s civil fraud trial that recently concluded ordered Mr. Trump not to comment on court staff members. In a federal trial in Florida in which Mr. Trump is accused of mishandling classified documents, the special counsel, Jack Smith, is also seeking to protect witnesses. The prosecutors have vehemently opposed an attempt by Mr. Trump’s lawyers to include the names of about 24 potential witnesses in a public filing, claiming that the witnesses could face harassment or intimidation. The prosecutors have even opened a separate criminal investigation of threats made on social media against one of the witnesses. The Manhattan criminal case was the first of Mr. Trump’s four indictments to be filed and is scheduled to go to trial on March 25. Last year, the district attorney’s office accused Mr. Trump of 34 felonies, saying he had orchestrated a cover-up of a potential sex scandal with a porn star that could have hindered his 2016 presidential campaign. Mr. Trump’s lawyers will be likely to oppose the gag order and could appeal it if Justice Merchan adopts it. A lawyer for Mr. Trump, Todd Blanche, declined to comment on the prosecutors’ proposal, saying that the defense’s court papers spoke for themselves. Steven Cheung, a spokesman for Mr. Trump’s campaign, slammed Mr. Bragg’s request for a “restrictive gag order, which if granted, would impose an unconstitutional infringement on President Trump’s First Amendment rights, including his ability to defend himself, and the rights of all Americans to hear from President Trump.”
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The former president has reveled in public attacks on his former fixer, Michael D. Cohen, who is now one of Mr. Bragg’s key witnesses. Mr. Cohen paid $130,000 in hush money to the porn star to silence her story of an affair with Mr. Trump and was later reimbursed by Mr. Trump. The case hinges on the reimbursement to Mr. Cohen. Mr. Trump, prosecutors say, knew that his company had falsified internal records, referring to the reimbursement as “legal expenses” that were part of a “retainer agreement.” Mr. Bragg has cast Mr. Trump’s actions as election interference, arguing that the cover-up led to the withholding of important information from voters shortly before they headed to the polls. But in their own filing Monday, Mr. Trump’s lawyers asked that the prosecutors be barred from asserting that their client had sought to influence the election, saying the argument was irrelevant. Mr. Bragg, the defense wrote, was saying that “efforts by a candidate to prevent adverse publicity about himself during a campaign equals an attempt to defraud.” They said the argument was not based on the law and “is an extraordinary perversion of our election system and the First Amendment.” Mr. Trump’s defense team also asked that the judge prevent Mr. Cohen from testifying. “Michael Cohen is a liar,” the former president’s lawyers wrote, accusing Mr. Cohen of perjury in Mr. Trump’s civil fraud trial and saying that his public statements indicated that he planned to lie again. (The judge in the civil fraud case concluded that Mr. Cohen had “told the truth.”) Mr. Cohen himself fired back on Monday, saying in a text message, “As the March 25th date draws closer and closer, Donald and his legal team of misfits will attempt to concoct new ways to delay this case.”
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>rich guy has sex with whore >court case about who is who this isn't news
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>>1271475 >rich guy has sex with whore >rich guy runs for president >rich guy uses campaign funds to shut up the whore >asks "fixer" lawyer to fix it >"fixer" lawyer gets caught >"fixer" lawyer lies for rich guy >"fixer" lawyer goes to jail for rich guy >rich guy pretends he doesn't know "fixer" lawyer and never hired him >"fixer" lawyer who got thrown under bus testifies against his former boss, the rich guy >rich guy opens mouth and threatens prosecutor, "fixer" lawyer, and other potential witnesses >judge imposes gag order on rich guy >rich guy whines about being persecuted That's what really happened. The gag order being issued is news.
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I'm gonna laugh and laugh and laugh when he goes down for the silliest crimes first simply because there were the least grounds to jam them up with bullshit.
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Is this the felony crime, that will get Trump a year is prison? You lose track with Trump's days in court
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>>1271484 >“As the March 25th date draws closer and closer, Donald and his legal team of misfits will attempt to concoct new ways to delay this case.” If he can delay it until after November and somehow win the presidency then he will likely never have to go to trial.
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>>1271487 >If he can delay it until after November and somehow win the presidency then he will likely never have to go to trial. I'm pretty sure at this point, New York would just say "fuck it" to political deference and force him to go to trial anyway. It's a fucking state court. It might be a long ass appeals process, but if they want to proceed, the feds can't actually stop them. And SCOTUS isn't gonna say the president is immune to state level prosecution no matter how much Republicans might fantasize about it.
Also there would be several months between the election and him assuming office during which he could still be tried.
And all this is assuming he can both delay the trial that long and win, neither of which I see happening. Once the jury starts hearing shit, delay is out the window and he's only got a few weeks to block the start of trial.
Also, a more interesting scenario than him delaying the trial is him delaying the punishment. Bail pending appeal of a conviction is a thing. That would be an absolute shitshow if he won. Republicans would be put in a position where they have to refuse to impeach a convicted felon. I almost wish it would happen, just so we can permanently do away with any pretense that the party is anything but a cult at this point.
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>>1271492 It seems likely to me that even if Biden wins in November and Trump is convicted (not just in this trial), the next Republican president after Biden elected in 2028 or 2032 will end up pardoning Trump and his minions anyway to save face. And if Trump happens to die of old age before then his legacy will be insufferably whitewashed and deified like they did to Reagan but worse.
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>>1271495 Can't pardon for state crimes and they might reform the pardon process for Georgia so the governor can do it, but he's never getting one from NY. Also, accepting a pardon is an admission of guilt.
Anyway, I want them to deify Trump. I want the party of Reagan to be the party of Trump. Trump isn't Reagan. He's worse than Nixon reputationally. The harder they cling to him, the more permanently they alienate anyone with a brain and a spine. You can't polish this turd.
Literally all clinging to him will do is deepen political divides in this country. It will be the new Southern Strategy, minus the strategy. And that's all it really is. Lashing themselves to Trump was never about expanding their base, but not bleeding out the crazies their base has turned into. They aren't drawing lines around them to get one up over Dems, but to keep from becoming irrelevant. But all they're doing is slow it down while making it more likely to happen.
Trump as a wedge issue will fuck over the Republicans just like abortion will going forward. The more they say that to not be a RINO you have to worship the MAGA, the more they fuck themselves.
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>>1271476 trump's lawyers are probably celebrating the gag order (quietly, after a weak "nooo dooon't" to the press)
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>>1271531 >Also, accepting a pardon is an admission of guilt. This is a profoundly ignorant statement. There are plenty of counter-examples of this throughout history.
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>>1271555 >This is a profoundly ignorant statement. >https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/236/79/#89-90 >This brings us to the differences between legislative immunity and a pardon. They are substantial. The latter carries an imputation of guilt; acceptance a confession of it. Technically just dicta, but SCOTUS sure as shit at least thinks accepting a pardon is a confession, even if they haven't made it official *yet*.
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>>1271555 >>1271582 Also, definitionally, you can't be forgiven (and a pardon is legal forgiveness) for something you didn't do.
Now, obviously, factually innocent people have been pardoned, but confessing to guilt and being guilty have never been the same thing, even if there is often overlap.
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>Everyone is a victim!!! Also...>Donald Trump needs to be punished! ...>The world is divided into two classes... victims/victimizers you bigot! >Of course I can terminate my pregnancy! Its my body my choice!! ...>Our Red/Blue team isnt like those other guys.. They will do anything in their power to destroy us!!! We are the victims! We must use all our might to couragously defend our freedom by doing anything we can to destroy them!!! You people...
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>>1271703 >You people... What do you mean by you people?
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>>1271531 >The harder they cling to him, the more permanently they alienate anyone with a brain and a spine. Anon, the democrat party spent a decade calling everybody who disagreed with them a nazi, including a presidential candidate that which changed Americas domestic messaging from shaming nationalism to celebrating nationalism.
Things have gotten so bad that blue states are stealing wealth from Republicans, celebrating criminals and openly trying to replace the working class of America with illegal immigrants.
When our liberal hubs become a modern rendition of Mad Max, and everyone has fled to rural America, we're not going to let you in.
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>>1271739 please post fanfiction elsewhere, this board is for news
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>>1271739 >How dare you call us a Nazi! Just for that, we're going to make sure you all die when the time comes! Pottery.
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>>1271801 >gatekeeping is genocide The final form of democratic retardation. And in hindsight explains the open border retardation.
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>>1271820 If you shut a door on someone in a sinking ship, did you kill them?
maga standup, 1 night only, bring gags and zip ties.
maga standup, 1 night only, bring gags and zip ties. Wed 28 Feb 2024 00:03:49 No. 1271860 Report >>1271470 That pix is fake.
Ivanka would never wear a tattered top like that.
when tRump hears 'gag' order, He thinks that He has to think up some gags to use in court.
Ex.
"That water out of the White house faucet flows slower than a russian whore's urine stream"
Pa rum pa pum pum
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>>1271856 If they blew the hole in the ship, I'd mark that up to suicide.
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>>1271860 You can tell it's fake because he doesn't have the upper body strength to overpower a woman over the age of 12
Which is fine. He's not particularly interested in them past that age anyway
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>>1271890 I'm glad we can agree that you're an idiot, then.
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>>1271893 Keep fighting the good fight!
just kidding, you're a fag and your efforts are in vane
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>>1271893 This thread is about Trump, not Biden.
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>>1272042 The description fits Trump perfectly
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