Alex Witt is joined by fellow MSNBC host and attorney Katie Phang to discuss former President Donald Trump’s rhetoric around threats made to an FBI agent by a man in Texas and the possibility of Judge Merchan’s gag order staying in effect through the first presidential debate.
New York state’s top court rejected Donald Trump’s gag order appeal Tuesday, as the former president separately presses Judge Juan Merchan to terminate the order. In his pending trial court motion, Trump argues that the order, which he opposed from the start, should end now that his trial is over. He was found guilty last month of all 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. His sentencing is set for July 11.
It bars Trump from speaking out against witnesses, jurors, lawyers and court staff and their families. Trump complained in his motion to Merchan that it’s unfair that trial witnesses like Michael Cohen and Stormy Daniels can speak about Trump but he can’t speak about them, and he claims that President Joe Biden wants to capitalize on the gag order’s restrictions, including at their presidential debate on June 27.
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