'Made my jaw drop': Expert slams Trump claim that gag order prevents Kamala Harris attacks
July 26, 2024
Legal analyst Lisa Rubin called out former President Donald Trump over his claim that a gag order in his New York hush money trial prevents him from attacking his Democratic rival.
Trump is trying to get his guilty verdict thrown out — claiming he's immune from prosecution — in the hush money case, in which he was accused of paying off an adult film star ahead of the 2016 election to keep her quiet about an affair.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has challenged Trump's claim that the Supreme Court gave him a "get out of jail free" card, arguing the high court super-sized presidential immunity, but didn't give Trump a free pass across the board.
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Former assistant D.A. Catherine Christian explained that Trump is quibbling over former White House adviser Hope Hicks' testimony in the case. Because she worked in the White House, Trump believes she should have been off limits.
"So, it's not the hush money payments that happened before. It's what happened when he was president," she said.
Rubin wrote a column Thursday that discussed Trump's proclamations on Truth Social maintaining his innocence. At one point, talking about the hush money trial, Trump wrote that the judges prevent him from being able to campaign and attack Vice President Kamala Harris and President Joe Biden.
"Of those three characterizations yesterday," Rubin said that one "made my jaw drop the most."
"Nobody affiliated with their administration is even remotely impacted by that gag order," said Rubin. "The remnants of the gag order that are in place have to do with the jurors. They have to do with people who are actually participants in the trial: the lawyers, the courtroom personnel, their family members. And then, specifically, the family members of the judge and of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg."
"How that relates to Kamala Harris and his inability to campaign against her, I'm at a loss for words," Rubin closed.
Jurors convicted Trump in May on 34 counts of falsifying business records around hush money he paid to actress and director Stormy Daniels to cover up a tryst they'd had years prior. Trump denies the affair but paid Daniels the cash ahead of the 2016 election.
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