An appeals court of NY rejected on Thursday the attempt by the former president and Republican candidate Donald Trump to lift a “gag order” that limits his public comments and led to fines in his criminal case NY.
“We have considered the applicant’s remaining arguments and find them unavailing,” the appeals court notes in its decision.
In May, Trump He became the first former president of USA to be found guilty in a criminal trial, in his case on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to the payment of a porn actress to protect his 2016 presidential run.
Trump’s sentence
The sentence of Trumpscheduled for July, was postponed until September 18 so that the judge overseeing the case can study whether a recent ruling by the US Supreme Court could affect his sentence.
Trump has been under a “gag order” since March that prohibits him from making public comments about jurors, witnesses, court staff and individual prosecutors in the separate case of the district attorney Manhattan, Alvin Bragg.
During the trial, the judge in charge of the case, Juan Manuel Merchandeclared on ten occasions in contempt of Trump For violating that gag order, he was fined and even threatened with imprisonment if he reoffended.
‘Gag order’
However, in June, Merchant partially lifted the “gag order” related to jurors and witnesses, but left intact the censorship related to statements about court staff, prosecutors and their families.
The Vice President Kamala Harrishis likely Democratic opponent in the November election, has not hesitated to use the historic criminal case of Trump for her campaign, as she presents herself as a former prosecutor who is facing a “convicted criminal.” EFE
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