“I think it’s not only a possibility, but it’s extremely likely that there will be a gag order in the case. There’s a good chance that Judge Merchán will impose a gag order on Trump sometime in the future according to Duncan Levin, a former senior staffer with the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.
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In the end though the judge gave the former president a stern warning to refrain from making statements that “incite violence or create civil unrest”. There had been some speculation that Merchán could impose a gag order on Trump at his first court appearance in the criminal case. In the run up to Donald Trump’s arraignment in New York on Tuesday the former president spoke out about Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg who convened the grand jury that voted to indict Trump and the judge overseeing the case Juan Merchán.
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