Ex-Prosecutor Predicts How Lifting Of Gag Order May Backfire On Donald Trump
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The move “may and probably will come back to bite” the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, argued Glenn Kirschner.
Former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner suggested that Judge Juan Merchan’s partial lifting of the gag order that he’d placed on Donald Trump during the former president’s hush money trial “may and probably will come back to bite” the presumptive GOP presidential nominee — and even possibly, ultimately, lead to his incarceration.
Merchan this week lifted the order barring Trump from talking about the witnesses and jurors in the case, for which he was convicted on all 34 charges and will be sentenced on July 11. Trump still can’t attack the prosecutors and court staff, though.
“Now, on the one hand, yes, that is very concerning because we fear for the witnesses and the jurors and others,” Kirschner acknowledged in the latest installment of his “Justice Matters” series that he shared on YouTube.
But it “really is in accordance with the law,” he explained, noting how Trump had been found guilty and the case is about to enter its sentencing phase.
Kirschner, however, said there could be a “silver lining.”
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