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Prosecutors are urging the judge overseeing Donald Trumps criminal hush money case to uphold a gag order that bars the Republican former president from criticizing jurors, court staff, or members of the prosecution that convicted him.
The order should at least extend through sentencing and other post-trial motions, prosecutors argued.
The former president was recently found guilty on 34 felony charges in his hush money trial.
The former president has already been fined $10,000 in total for 10 violations of the gag order.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
Social media posts were filled with encouragement for the former president to continue his defiance of the judge in hopes he'll actually get put behind bars.
Trump may be trying to wriggle his way out of testifying, which he'd previously pledged to do.
"Defendant knows what he is doing, and everyone else does too," Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg wrote in a filing.
The gag order, which bars Donald Trump from verbally attacking court staffers in public, was originally imposed last month.
Prosecutors argued that Trump was threatening the judicial process by launching public attacks against people involved in the case.
His social media posts were not threatening despite the hundreds of alarming calls and messages to court staff others sent in their wake, he alleges in a court filing.
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