The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office slammed Donald Trump Thursday for allegedly breaching a gag order “seven more times” in the past few days, fuming it’s “ridiculous.”
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee’s most “disturbing post,” prosecutor Chris Conroy said. came that night when Trump shared a quote on Truth Social from Fox News host Jesse Watters which said “they are catching undercover liberal activists lying to the judge” in order to get on the jury in his hush money trial.
Trump, 77, also reposted clips, including an opinion piece published in The Post, that were critical of his former lawyer and “fixer” Michael Cohen — an ex-con who is expected to be a key witness at the historic Manhattan Supreme Court trial.
Judge Juan Merchan has ruled that the former president can’t disparage jurors or witnesses in the criminal case — or go after family of court staff, including relatives of the judge and District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
Trump’s lawyer Emil Bove claimed the ex-president did not make any “willful violations” of the judge’s gag order, which has some “ambiguities” — arguing that Trump’s reposting of other users’ public comments wasn’t a violation of the order.
Bove added that Cohen has been targeting Trump in “connection to the campaign,” and that Trump’s responses were related to that, not the trial.
But Conroy countered the posts clearly flout the order and asked Merchan to hold Trump in contempt of court, which could lead to fines and theoretically jail time of up to 30 days.
“It’s ridiculous. It has to stop,” Conroy said.
The DA’s Office on Tuesday similarly asked Merchan to fine Trump $3,000 and warn him he could be tossed behind bars for taking shots at ex-porn star Stormy Daniels and for making prior attacks on Cohen over the weekend.
Merchan at the time said he’d address the DA’s motion on April 23.
Trump is accused of falsifying business records in order to cover up that he had Cohen pay Daniels $130,000 in the lead up to the 2016 election in order to keep her quiet about her claims she slept with Trump while he was married.
He’s denied the charges and claims the case is part of a Democratic cabal using litigation and criminal charges to keep him from getting reelected.
