Following the second day of his criminal trial in Manhattan, former President Donald Trump was interviewed on the far-right Newsmax TV while he visited a bodega in New York City — and wasted no time in lobbing yet another attack on the criminal justice system.
"Do you believe you violated the gag order?" a reporter asked the former president.
"No, I didn’t. There shouldn't be a gag order. Let me just tell you the gag order is totally unconstitutional," said Trump. "The judge should not be there. The judge is highly conflicted. He should not be there."
Trump, whose attorneys have similarly been making the rounds on TV complaining about the propriety of the case, did not elaborate on why he believes the gag order to be unconstitutional; however, he has repeatedly attacked the judge, Juan Merchan, even going after his family and claiming he should be removed because his daughter worked for a company that partnered with Democratic political campaigns.
The attacks prompted Merchan to expand the gag order to explicitly restrict the former president from making such attacks on family members of officers of the court, although Trump is nonetheless still allowed to continue criticizing Merchan himself, as well as Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
The case, which is the first of four criminal trials the former president is scheduled to stand, centers on allegations that Trump criminally falsified business records in order to conceal a hush payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels, which Bragg argues was a scheme to suppress information about an affair from voters in the 2016 presidential election. Trump pleaded not guilty to charges and further denies that the affair in question happened at all.
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