The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office slammed Donald Trump Thursday for allegedly breaching a gag order “seven more times” in the past few days, fuming it’s “ridiculous.”
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee’s most “disturbing post,” prosecutor Chris Conroy said. came that night when Trump shared a quote on Truth Social from Fox News host Jesse Watters which said “they are catching undercover liberal activists lying to the judge” in order to get on the jury in his hush money trial.
Trump, 77, also reposted clips, including an opinion piece published in The Post, that were critical of his former lawyer and “fixer” Michael Cohen — an ex-con who is expected to be a key witness at the historic Manhattan Supreme Court trial.
Judge Juan Merchan has ruled that the former president can’t disparage jurors or witnesses in the criminal case — or go after family of court staff, including relatives of the judge and District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
Trump’s lawyer Emil Bove claimed the ex-president did not make any “willful violations” of the judge’s gag order, which has some “ambiguities” — arguing that Trump’s reposting of other users’ public comments wasn’t a violation of the order.
Bove added that Cohen has been targeting Trump in “connection to the campaign,” and that Trump’s responses were related to that, not the trial.
