Former President Donald Trump on Friday ranted outside of a courthouse in Manhattan about the gag order that prevents him from attacking witnesses and jurors in his hush-money trial.
Trump started off his rant by falsely claiming that President Joe Biden was directing all criminal prosecutions against him, despite the fact that the case currently being tried was brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and not the United States Department of Justice.
After rehashing his usual complaints about "election interference," Trump pivoted to complaining about the gag order.
"The gag order has to come off," he declared. "People are allowed to speak about me but I have a gag order!"
In fact, gag orders are quite common against criminal defendants in the United States to prevent them from trying to intimidate witnesses or tamper with the jury.
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Trump then baselessly accused Judge Juan Merchan of having "the worst" conflict of interest he'd ever seen in a judge before once again bringing up the gag order.
"I should be allowed to speak!" he complained. "They've taken away my constitutional rights to speak... I have a lot to say to you and I'm not allowed to say it! And I'm the only one! Everyone else can say whatever they want about me, they can say anything they want! They can continue to make up lies and everything else! They lie... they're real scum!"
He summed up his complaint by lamenting about the unfairness of everything.
"So why am I gagged?" he complained. "I'm only telling the truth! They're not telling the truth! The judge has to take off this gag order! It's very, very unfair! My constitutional rights have been taken away!"
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