President Donald Trump shouldn’t be prevented from speaking about witnesses such as his former attorney Michael Cohen who publicly criticize him on a regular basis, legal experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Judge Juan Merchan on Tuesday morning considered allegations that Trump violated his gag order by, among other things, attacking witnesses like Cohen and porn star Stormy Daniels. Trump, who was indicted last April on 34 counts for allegedly falsifying business records in relation to a $130,000 payment Cohen made to keep Daniels quiet about her claims of an affair, now faces financial penalties and even jail time if Merchan finds he violated the gag order.
“I think it is totally unfair and unjustified and a clear violation of the First Amendment,” Hans von Spakovsky, senior legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation’s Edwin Meese III Center for…
