“Trump has a history of insulting his opponents and making inflammatory remarks.”
Ahead of trial in March, Trump claims “election interference” and “witch hunt”
Ahead of the trial related to former U.S. President Donald Trump’s sexual harassment scandal case, on the 26th (local time) the Manhattan prosecutor in New York requested the judge in charge of the court to issue a ‘gag order’ on Trump until the trial on the 25th of next month. did.
Prosecutors cited the fact that Trump “has a long history of publicly making inflammatory remarks and insults” toward people involved in his trial.
Manhattan district prosecutors have been trying to obtain a “tightly tailored court order” to prevent Trump from making publicly insulting or offensive comments toward witnesses or jurors in his trial.
Prosecutors argued that this was a measure to prevent Trump’s remarks from interfering with the trial by the court judges, prosecutors, court staff, or witnesses, or even making his family members the subject of ridicule.
Also, just as Trump was banned from using court evidence to attack witnesses in April last year, the intention is to prevent such actions in the future with a silence order.
Prosecutors said that without such a restraining order from the court, Trump’s “dirty mouth” would “pose a serious threat to the trial itself,” including preventing relevant parties from participating ahead of the trial, wasting government resources, and delaying justice. A silence order was requested.
The judge in charge, Judge Juan Manuel Mercan, did not immediately issue a silence order. The trial is scheduled for March 25 and, unless postponed at the last minute, will be the first of four cases in which Trump is accused.
In response to the prosecution’s request for a silence order, Trump’s campaign headquarters said in a statement from its spokesperson that it was “a clear and definite intervention in the election” and that the trial itself on charges of bribery to silence the sexual scandal was “a false case fabricated by the biased Democratic Party to prevent Trump from re-entering the White House.” insisted.
Trump’s attorney, Susan Necheles, said the defense would respond in a court filing later this week.
During the October 2016 presidential election, former President Trump was accused of 34 counts, including giving $130,000 (KRW 164.46 million) to adult film star Stormy Daniels through his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, to keep her from having sex with him, and making false entries in the company’s books. there is.
Prosecutors put former President Trump on trial in March of last year, and it was the first case in which a former president was criminally indicted in the United States.
Former President Trump denied all charges and pleaded not guilty at the indictment proceedings held a month later.
This time, they protested that the Democratic Party and the court deliberately delayed the trial and made it revised right before the presidential election, and they continue to claim that the prosecution’s request for a silence order is election interference.
Trump has previously received a silence order from a Washington DC court regarding civil trials related to election interference. He also violated the law twice and was fined $15,000. This is because he posted a post on his social networking service (SNS) harshly cursing the chief judicial officer of the judge in charge.
This time too, Trump criticized the judge in charge, his family, and relatives ahead of the trial, saying they were all opponents of Trump.
The prosecution said, “The defendant has so many criminal records related to this issue that self-restraint cannot be asked as an alternative,” and “He not only denies the trial itself at every opportunity, such as on social media and during speeches during election campaigns, but also denies the judge, jury, lawyers, and witnesses.” “He has attacked and ridiculed everyone involved in his trial,” he claimed in court documents.
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Source: Donga
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