Donald Trump’s lawyers have been accused of submitting laughable legal filings, as they say why the former president does not need a gag order ahead of his federal election trial.
Former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance was reacting to Trump’s legal team saying that threats made to the judge and court staff overseeing the former president’s civil fraud trial in New York are irrelevant to arguments as to whether a gag order is needed in the case.
Circuit Court of Appeals is weighing up narrowing the gag order imposed on Trump by Judge Tanya Chutkan in the federal election case to stop him publicly attacking potential witnesses in the trial.
The affidavit added that, since the New York gag order was lifted on November 16, which allowed Trump to resume attacking Greenfield, the law clerk has been receiving around 20 to 30 calls per day to her personal cell phone and 30 to 50 messages on social media and to her email.
“Ms. Greenfield also informed me that, since the interim stay was issued lifting the gag orders on November 16, 2023, approximately half of the harassing and disparaging messages have been antisemitic,” Hollon wrote.
In the November 23 filings, Cecil Vandevender, an assistant special counsel for the DOJ, said the affidavit in New York was proof of the ongoing threats and harassment surrounding Trump, which had been requested by the appeals court.
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Donald Trump’s lawyers have been accused of submitting laughable legal filings, as they say why the former president does not need a gag order ahead of his federal election trial.
Former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance was reacting to Trump’s legal team saying that threats made to the judge and court staff overseeing the former president’s civil fraud trial in New York are irrelevant to arguments as to whether a gag order is needed in the case.
Circuit Court of Appeals is weighing up narrowing the gag order imposed on Trump by Judge Tanya Chutkan in the federal election case to stop him publicly attacking potential witnesses in the trial.
The affidavit added that, since the New York gag order was lifted on November 16, which allowed Trump to resume attacking Greenfield, the law clerk has been receiving around 20 to 30 calls per day to her personal cell phone and 30 to 50 messages on social media and to her email.
“Ms. Greenfield also informed me that, since the interim stay was issued lifting the gag orders on November 16, 2023, approximately half of the harassing and disparaging messages have been antisemitic,” Hollon wrote.
In the November 23 filings, Cecil Vandevender, an assistant special counsel for the DOJ, said the affidavit in New York was proof of the ongoing threats and harassment surrounding Trump, which had been requested by the appeals court.
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