Prosecutors seek Trump gag order in New York hush money criminal case
- Manhattan district attorney’s office asked for order that would bar Trump from making or directing others to make statements about potential witnesses
- Trump is already subject to a gag order in his case charging him with scheming to overturn the results of 2020 election
Prosecutors have asked a judge for a gag order to restrict former US president Donald Trump from making public comments about witnesses or exposing the identities of jurors in the former US president’s New York trial involving hush money paid to a porn star, court filings made public on Monday showed.
He is accused of falsifying business records to cover up the hush money paid to porn actor Stormy Daniels just before the 2016 election to keep her silent about a sexual encounter she said she had with him a decade earlier. He has denied any such relationship.
Steven Cheung, a spokesman for Trump’s campaign, said a gag order in the case would infringe on Trump’s right to free speech, if implemented.
“This is election interference pure and simple,” Cheung said in a statement.
