Furious Trump slams gag order ruling for stopping him 'telling the truth'

Former President Donald Trump reacted with fury after the D.C. Court of Appeals upheld Judge Tanya Chutkan's gag order against him in the 2020 election case — and he took to Truth Social to claim that it is preventing him from "telling the truth."

"An Appeals Court has just largely upheld the Gag Order against me in the ridiculous J6 Case, where the Unselect January 6th Committee deleted and destroyed almost all Documents and Evidence, saying that I can be barred from talking and, in effect, telling the truth," said Trump.

"In other words, people can speak violently and viciously against me, or attack me in any form, but I am not allowed to respond, in kind," he continued. "What is becoming of our First Amendment, what is becoming of our Country? We will appeal this decision!"

The gag order in question, issued on the request of special counsel Jack Smith, still gives Trump broad leeway to discuss the case and assert his innocence in public, but limits him from attacking court staff and witnesses.

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While the appellate judges mostly left Chutkan's order in place, they removed the provision that prohibited Trump from publicly criticizing Smith himself.

All of this comes as Trump's legal team fruitlessly tries to fight another gag order imposed in the civil fraud trial in New York, which has already been used to fine Trump twice.