Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg asked a judge on Monday to impose a gag order in the hush-money case against Donald Trump in New York, citing the former president’s “long history” of public inflammatory remarks about those involved in Trump’s legal cases.
Bragg asked Judge Juan Merchan to prohibit Trump from speaking about witnesses when the speech involves their participation in the case, as well as from speaking about Bragg’s court staff or lawyers if the speech is intended to “materially interfere” with the case.
Bragg’s prosecutors wrote in their 30-page request, which was accompanied by 200 pages of exhibits, that Bragg was seeking a “narrowly tailored” order that mimicked the gag order imposed on Trump in the former president’s criminal case in Washington, D.C., according to a copy of the filing
