Trump shouldn’t be under a gag order to begin with.
Conservative attorney George Conway has expressed his anticipation that former President Trump will likely breach the gag order imposed by the New York judge overseeing Trump’s hush money trial.
Speaking on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Conway remarked, “At some juncture, I believe, he won’t be able to resist himself. He’s bound to violate the gag order, presenting quite an intriguing moment.”
Conway’s observations come subsequent to Judge Juan Merchan’s imposition of the gag order on Trump, the anticipated GOP presidential nominee, earlier in the week. The order prohibits him from issuing public statements about witnesses, prosecutors, court personnel, or their relatives “if those declarations are made with the intent to materially obstruct” the case.
This decree ensued following a barrage of social media assaults from Trump, some directly aimed at Merchan’s daughter, Loren, who serves as a Democratic political consultant.
Though the gag order doesn’t explicitly prevent Trump from criticizing Merchan, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D), or their families, the judge clarified that his decision to implement the order reflected the “nature and impact” of statements directed at him, his “family member,” and two prosecutors.
“He’s perpetually inclined to find that one thing he can do — if there’s a list of prohibited actions that he doubts he can get away with — and he exhibits no reluctance,” remarked Conway, a recurrent Trump detractor. “He lacks any moral compass.”
Conway, currently in the final phases of divorcing ex-Trump aide Kellyanne Conway, envisages Trump succumbing to temptation and possibly violating the gag order.
“I mean, he’s conceivably already breached other gag orders, but we’ll witness him testing the boundaries as much as possible, especially when he’s actually in that courtroom on April 15, compelled to endure all the evidence against him and hear the arguments,” Conway noted.
Merchan’s gag order represents the third Trump has encountered in recent times, following restrictions on his speech in his New York civil fraud case and his federal criminal case linked to endeavors to undermine the 2020 election outcomes.
In the New York proceedings, Trump confronts 34 charges alleging illegal falsification of business records when reimbursing his former fixer, Michael Cohen, for a payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels to conceal an affair ahead of the 2016 election. He has pleaded not guilty.
