Judge Juan Merchan held another gag order hearing Thursday morning to consider the prosecution’s four additional allegations against former President Donald Trump in the hush money trial.
Donald Trump's hush money trial resumes Thursday in a Manhattan courtroom with prosecutors set to argue that the judge overseeing the trial should find the former president in criminal contempt — again — for violating a gag order.
Former President Donald Trump falsely claimed Thursday that he is not allowed to testify in his own defense at a criminal trial in Manhattan over his alleged falsification of business records.
“I’m not allowed as a presidential candidate—the leading candidate, the Republican Party nominee, and the one who’s leading Biden by a lot—I’m not allowed to talk,” Trump said Thursday.
The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s hush money trial has clarified that the gag order pertaining to the former president doesn’t prohibit him from testifying on his own behalf. Judge Juan M. Merchan started the trial day Friday by making that clarification, apparently responding to comments the Repu…
The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s hush-money criminal trial said a gag order barring the former president from publicly discussing jurors or witnesses doesn’t prevent him from taking the witness stand.
Former President Donald Trump on Friday said he might testify in his criminal trial, one day after he suggested the gag order on him would prevent him from taking the stand.
