Donald Trump on Tuesday asked the judge who oversaw his criminal trial on charges stemming from hush money to a porn star to lift a gag order on the case, in which the former US president was convicted. last week.
Before the trial began in April, Judge Juan Merchán restricted Trump’s public statements about jurors, witnesses and others involved in the case, after prosecutors pointed to comments he had made in the past that they described as threatening.
“Now that the trial has concluded, the concerns articulated by the Government and the Court do not justify further restrictions on President Trump’s First Amendment rights,” defense attorney Todd Blanche wrote in a letter dated June 3 and made public on Tuesday.
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A Manhattan jury last week found Trump guilty of all 34 counts he faced for falsifying business records to cover up a $130,000 payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election over a sexual encounter. which she says they had.
Trump, a Republican candidate for the 2024 elections, denies having had sexual relations with Daniels and has promised to appeal the conviction.
(Reporting by Luc Cohen in New York; edited in Spanish by Héctor Espinoza)
