Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has requested Justice Juan Merchan to maintain most of the provisions of a gag order imposed on former President Donald Trump. This request follows a series of death threats and racial abuse directed at Bragg, his family, and his employees. The New York Police Department has logged 61 threat cases against Bragg since April, with the majority occurring in the last three months. Prosecutors argue that Trump's history of inflammatory and threatening public statements necessitates the continuation of the gag order. While New York prosecutors are open to partially lifting the gag order, they insist on keeping restrictions on Trump's comments about jurors, court staff, and individual prosecutors.
In advance of Monday’s hearing on Jack Smith’s latest proposed partial gag order on Trump, the special counsel last night filed another hyperbolic brief filled with unsubstantiated claims of bodily threats to law enforcement in docs case. Note how Smith says “this Court.” He… https://t.co/fA1DQCihVV
Jack Smith is asking Judge Cannon to urgently grant his gag order request in the classified documents case due to the "foreseeable danger to law enforcement" posed by Donald Trump. "Statements that present a significant, imminent, and foreseeable danger to the law enforcement…
The Manhattan district attorney’s office cited increased threats against Alvin Bragg and others as a reason to continue the gag order against Trump through sentencing. https://t.co/LJxCJheKh5
Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg has asked Judge Juan Merchan to extend Donald Trump’s gag order. Tune in TONIGHT at 9pm ET for more with @AlinaHabba and @AlanDersh!
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who secured former President Trump's conviction in the New York hush money case, as well as his family and employees have faced a series of threats, his office argued in a new court filing. https://t.co/Ra7HNvVzxA
The Manhattan DA's filing includes affidavits showing the NYPD's Threat Assessment & Protection Unit had logged 61 threat cases against Alvin Bragg or his family and employees — with the majority coming in the last three months. The affidavit cited examples that read "we will…
Donald Trump has been convicted in his hush money case but is still under a gag order. He wants it lifted but the Manhattan DA is pushing back https://t.co/BHBgxRFeqe
NEW: Manhattan DA details wave of threats after Donald Trump's felony convictions https://t.co/7k9toZHQMv
Manhattan DA cites threats in cautioning judge to keep gag order in Trump’s hush-money case @jruss_jruss https://t.co/RYq8WsQ6ar
In urging Trump's gag order to remain in the New York criminal case, the Manhattan DA's Office described to the Court some of the threats received: "The recent threat activity directly connected to defendant’s dangerous rhetoric about this prosecution includes bomb threats at…
New York prosecutors said they supported allowing Donald Trump to speak publicly about witnesses in the hush money case. But they urged Justice Juan Merchan to keep in place restrictions on his comments about jurors, court staff and individual prosecutors https://t.co/8gm40eAFdD https://t.co/zhfDLj4tMD
Manhattan DA details new death threats, OKs letting Trump rip hush money case witnesses https://t.co/OWYheI5Glg https://t.co/gmwie9mxFY
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg asked a judge to keep in place most of the provisions of a gag order the judge imposed on Donald Trump in April, according to a court filing made public Friday. https://t.co/D73HHZltnZ
JUST IN: Alvin Bragg Asks Judge to Extend Unconstitutional Trump Gag Order Even Though Hush Money Trial Is Over, Citing Threats From Trump Supporters READ: https://t.co/UtqtVuFCdG https://t.co/uFdszAHLg3
Alvin Bragg blames Trump for "death threats" against him, demands judge extend gag order https://t.co/s8QOGPkrc3
New York prosecutors say they are open to a partial lifting of a judge's gag order now that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has been convicted on criminal charges stemming from an effort to influence the 2016 election https://t.co/eXt08JLt0u https://t.co/kMcs8VUka2
Just In: DA Alvin Bragg Asks Judge to Extend Trump’s Gag Order Due to Death Threats https://t.co/8b22fvYd1V
"The New York Police Department has logged 56 'actionable threats' since the beginning of April directed against Alvin L. Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney who brought the case, and against his family and employees, according to an affidavit provided with the filing."…
In court papers filed Friday, prosecutors argued that portions of the gag order remained necessary given Trump’s “singular history of inflammatory and threatening public statements." https://t.co/aww9ujUMkU
New York DA who prosecuted Trump is target of death threats and racial abuse https://t.co/3ExaIJ0khn
BREAKING NEW: DA Bragg rightly opposes term of Trump's gag order As we wrote in this @MSNBC essay, Trump represents a continuing danger to jurors & witnesses in the case & the gag order must remain👇 https://t.co/3KCBHTmxr2 https://t.co/7HoQdOt2VS
JUST IN: Alvin Bragg urges Justice Merchan to reject Trump's bid to immediately rescind his gag order. https://t.co/EK3dy9tu8U