Prosecutors yesterday urged the judge overseeing Donald Trump's criminal hush money case to uphold provisions of a gag order that bar him from criticising jurors and court staff, while agreeing to lift a restriction on his public statements about trial witnesses.
In court papers filed yesterday, prosecutors with the Manhattan district attorney's office argued that portions of the gag order remained necessary given the Republican former president's "singular history of inflammatory and threatening public statements," as well as efforts by his supporters to "identify jurors and threaten violence against them".
"Since the verdict in this case, defendant has not exempted the jurors from his alarming rhetoric that he would have 'every right' to seek retribution as president against the participants in this trial as a consequence of his conviction because 'sometimes revenge can be justified," the filing states.
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