{"id":2211223,"date":"2024-04-02T09:35:03","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T13:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-expands-gag-order-against-trump-in-hush-money-case\/"},"modified":"2024-04-02T09:35:36","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T13:35:36","slug":"judge-expands-gag-order-against-trump-in-hush-money-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-expands-gag-order-against-trump-in-hush-money-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge increases restrictions on Trump in hush money case"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjudge-expands-gag-order-against-trump-in-hush-money-case%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2211223&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In \u200dsummary, New York Justice Juan Merchan extended his gag order\u200b against former \u2062President Donald Trump.\u200c This \u2062gag order \u2064further restricts Trump from making unnecessary criticisms of lawyers, jurists,\u2064 or\u2062 their families. Trump will have to refrain from negatively commenting on legal \u200cmatters \u200crelated \u200dto his hush money case. Learn \u200dmore at [Link]. New York Justice \u2063Juan \u200cMerchan\u2062 has expanded the gag order against ex-President Donald Trump, preventing him\u2062 from unjustly criticizing legal professionals and their \u200drelatives. This restriction applies to Trump&#8217;s comments\u200c on legal issues concerning\u2062 his hush money\u200c case. \u200cVisit the provided link \u2063for additional details.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>New York Justice Juan Merchan expanded his gag order against former President Donald Trump on Monday, further limiting the Republican presidential candidate\u2019s criticisms of family members of lawyers and jurists.<\/p>\n<p>In a five-page ruling, Merchan scolded Trump for his posts on Truth Social targeting the judge\u2019s daughter, Loren, who has served as an executive at a leftist political consulting firm that has worked with clients like President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, The Hill <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/4568757-trumps-gag-order-in-hush-money-case-expanded-to-include-judges-family\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis pattern of attacking family members of presiding jurists and attorneys assigned to his cases serves no legitimate purpose. It merely injects fear in those assigned or called to participate in the proceedings, that not only they, but their family members as well, are \u2018fair game\u2019 for Defendant\u2019s vitriol,\u201d Merchan wrote.<\/p>\n<p>In the hush money case brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg against Trump, the former president stands accused of falsifying business records in an attempt to cover up an alleged affair with porn actress Stormy Daniels. The hush money case, widely viewed as the weakest case against the former president, was the first in a slew of criminal charges against Trump and made Trump the first ex-president to be charged with a crime. Trump has denied sending Daniels any hush money along with denying the alleged affair between them.<\/p>\n<p>The trial is set to begin on April 15 after Merchan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/judge-delays-trumps-hush-money-case-heres-where-the-former-presidents-4-criminal-trials-now-stand\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">delayed<\/a> it last month to give Trump\u2019s legal team time to review a new dump of 100,000 pages of material that could be used as evidence in the case.<\/p>\n<p>In his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/judge-issues-gag-order-on-trump-ahead-of-new-york-criminal-trial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">initial gag order<\/a> last week, Merchan \u2014 who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/judge-overseeing-trumps-hush-money-case-donated-to-bidens-2020-presidential-campaign\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">donated<\/a> to Biden\u2019s campaign against Trump in 2020 \u2014 restricted Trump\u2019s ability to speak out about witnesses, prosecutors, and jurors involved in the criminal case, but the judge\u2019s order didn\u2019t apply to him or his family. Following the gag order, Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/trump-rails-against-judge-daughter-following-gag-order-in-ny-criminal-case-an-acute-case-of-trump-derangement-syndrome\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">slammed<\/a> Merchan and his daughter, writing that Loren \u201crepresents Crooked Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Adam \u2018Shifty\u2019 Schiff, and other Radical Liberals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s lawyers argued that the leading presidential candidate\u2019s social media posts about the judge and his daughter are protected by the First Amendment and \u201cnecessary and appropriate in the current environment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Merchan disagreed, saying that the lawyers\u2019 arguments are \u201cfarcical\u201d and calling Trump\u2019s posts \u201cdangerous rhetoric,\u201d according to The Hill.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1711847459151000&#038;usg=AOvVaw3OccKYAVbZP-9J-sgruazM\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/112201335389709319\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">responded<\/a> to the expanded gag order, writing on Truth Social on Tuesday morning that Merchan \u201cshould be recused, and the case should be thrown out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just was informed that another corrupt New York Judge, Juan Merchan, GAGGED me so that I can not talk about the corruption and conflicts taking place in his courtroom with respect to a case that everyone, including the D.A., felt should never have been brought,\u201d Trump said. \u201cThey can talk about me, but I can\u2019t talk about them??? That sounds fair, doesn\u2019t it? This Judge should be recused, and the case should be thrown out. There has virtually never been a more conflicted judge than this one. ELECTION INTERFERENCE at its worst!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Justice Juan Merchan broadened his gag order against ex-President Donald Trump. This move tightens restrictions on Trump&#8217;s criticisms of lawyers&#8217; and jurists&#8217; relatives. Merchan rebuked Trump for comments on Truth Social about the judge&#8217;s daughter, Loren, an executive at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":324,"featured_media":2211224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-2112640519-scaled-e1712060313774.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2211223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-2112640519-scaled-e1712060313774.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2211223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2211224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2211223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2211223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2211223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}