Trump also vented rage at the Georgia prosecutor who is expected to bring her state-level election interference case before a grand jury this week.
that limited what evidence Trump can share in the election interference case. Chutkan granted a request from Trump's lawyers for a narrower protective order than what federal prosecutors had proposed, though she gave the Justice Department a say in the specific parameters of the order.
In that hearing, Chutkan warned Trump and his legal team not to post anything that could potentially impact the integrity of the case. "Even arguably ambiguous statements by the parties or their counsel, if they could be reasonably interpreted to intimidate witnesses or to prejudice potential jurors, can threaten the process," she said.
Trump nevertheless fired off a social media fusillade over the weekend that decried his D.C. case and his other legal troubles. He shared a post on Sunday that included a photo of Chutkan and described her as "an Obama leftwing activist judge in DC, whose husband also got appointed by Obama as a DC judge."
That post claimed Chutkan "openly admitted she's running election interference against Trump." It referenced the judge's quote from Friday's protective order hearing that Trump's presidential campaign cannot take precedence over his criminal case. "If that means he can't say exactly what he wants to say about witnesses in this case, that's how it has to be," she said.
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