Mara Gay of the New York Times appeared to suggest Wednesday that Judge Juan Merchan should maintain his gag order on former President Donald Trump to safeguard voters.
Trump's gag orderimposed by Merchan, prohibits the former president from making public statements about witnesses, prosecutors other than the prosecutor, judicial staff and jurors, as well as family members of the staff, prosecutor or judge. gay on “Deadline: White House” appeared to hint during a conversation about the need for the gag order that protects both the jurors who convicted Trump and American voters.
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“You have to protect the jurors, you have to protect the voters,” Gay said. “And if we can't do those two things right now, you can't ask people to participate in democracy or to trust the process. So this is a time to throw everything democracy has at this man.”
Trump is still under the gag order even though his trial is over, with the former president's lawyers asking Marchan on Tuesday to lift the ban on his speech. However, Alvin Bragg's Democratic Manhattan district office defended Wednesday by keeping Trump under the gag order, asking that it remain in place at least through the former president's sentencing hearing in July and any post-trial motions.
“The gag order does not stop Donald Trump from making any political attacks against Joe Biden and his administration. . . . There is a separation for the judge himself, who has been attacked. And there is an election for Alvin Bragg,” he said MSNBC legal analyst Andrew Weissmann before Gay's comments. “What he's doing is protecting the witnesses and the jurors. And this is one where the district attorney has called for both sides to brief on this issue, but they're clearly going to take the position that you can't tell the witnesses or the jurors, 'Hey , we will protect you only during the trial, but after the trial you are on your own.'' The judge is not an idiot.”
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MSNBC analyst John Heilemann chimed in to add that it would be “absolutely crazy” for Merchan to lift the gag order before Gay's comments.
He broke into an MSNBC panel in May Laugh about Trump's inability to run a typical re-election campaign because the gag order hampers his speech, connecting the order to the former president's upcoming debate with President Joe Biden, where microphones will be muted for the duration of the other candidate's word.
“Donald Trump has some experience with cutting his mic. I mean, he's sat in court and he really wanted to answer everything with his mic cut,” NBC News senior national politics reporter Jonathan Allen said, prompting the laughter from his fellow panelists. “So it will be interesting to see if he's able to do that in a debate. But he's definitely been tight-lipped over the last few weeks.”
First published by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
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