A New York judge has partially lifted a gag order imposed on Donald Trump during his trial for falsifying business records in a bid to cover up a sex scandal ahead of his successful presidential bid in 2016.
The ruling by Judge Juan Merchan allows Trump to comment publicly about witnesses and jurors in the hush money criminal trial that led to his conviction on May 30 but keeps others connected to the case off-limits until his sentencing on July 11.
A separate order barring Trump or lawyers from either side from identifying members of the anonymous jury remains in effect, according to the five-page ruling issued on Tuesday.
Prosecutors said last week that Trump supporters had attempted to identify jurors and threatened violence against them.
“There is ample evidence to justify continued concern for the jurors,” the judge wrote.
The partial lifting of the gag order came days before Trump’s first public debate with President Joe Biden on Thursday in the run-up to the presidential election in November.
In the first criminal trial of a US president, a Manhattan jury found Trump guilty of covering up his former lawyer Michael Cohen's $130,000 hush money payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels, who was threatening to go public about an alleged sexual encounter with the billionaire businessman in 2006.
Trump denies the encounter took place and has vowed to appeal his conviction. His sentencing is scheduled four days before his Republican party convenes to formally nominate him as its presidential candidate.
His campaign spokesman Steven Cheung said Trump’s lawyers would appeal against Tuesday’s ruling, which he described as “another unlawful decision by a highly conflicted judge”.
Trump faces up to four years in prison after being found guilty on 34 counts in the hush money trial, although prosecutors have not said if they would seek detention for the former president. Other options include a fine or probation.
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Farage on Muslim Brotherhood
Nigel Farage told Reform's annual conference that the party will proscribe the Muslim Brotherhood if he becomes Prime Minister.
"We will stop dangerous organisations with links to terrorism operating in our country," he said. "Quite why we've been so gutless about this – both Labour and Conservative – I don't know.
“All across the Middle East, countries have banned and proscribed the Muslim Brotherhood as a dangerous organisation. We will do the very same.”
It is 10 years since a ground-breaking report into the Muslim Brotherhood by Sir John Jenkins.
Among the former diplomat's findings was an assessment that “the use of extreme violence in the pursuit of the perfect Islamic society” has “never been institutionally disowned” by the movement.
The prime minister at the time, David Cameron, who commissioned the report, said membership or association with the Muslim Brotherhood was a "possible indicator of extremism" but it would not be banned.
