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U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla, is one of many Trump-aligned lawmakers who traveled to the Manhattan courthouse to suppo

Former President Donald Trump, his attorney Todd Blanche, right, and U.S. Sen Rick Scott, R-Fla., rear center, arrive for Trump's trial at Manhattan Criminal Court, May 9, 2024, in New York . A gag order in former President Donald Trump’s Manhattan court case bans him from making statements about witnesses, jurors, counsel, court staff or their families and “making or directing others to make public statements” about those people.

"I am not under a gag order, so I am going to tell the truth," Donalds, who is reportedly a vice presidential contender, told "Public officials have the right to express their opinions and the First Amendment protects their speech as much as anyone else’s," Coffey said."It seems difficult to envision proceedings by state prosecuting authorities to try to penetrate the email and text communications of federally elected public officials without very significant evidence of puppet strings being pulled by the Trump camp.

David Weinstein, a former Florida federal prosecutor and Miami-Dade prosecutor, said,"The problem is going to be, how in the world does the court prove Trump told these people to say all of this?" “Biden has implemented a formal policy that illegal aliens who intrude into the United States are granted immunity from deportation.”

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