Trump Judge Issues Gag Order After Truth Social Post
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Justice Arthur Engoron listens to testimony from Donald Bender in a courtroom sketch on October 2.
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The judge in Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial issued a gag order on both parties posting online about his staff, following a social media post by the former president attacking his clerk and sharing her photo with his followers.
On his Truth Social platform Tuesday, Trump claimed without evidence that the judge’s principal law clerk is the “girlfriend” of Democrat Chuck Schumer, and reposted someone who asked why she was “palling around” with the Senate majority leader. Trump, the Republican presidential front-runner, has portrayed the case as part of a “corrupt” Democratic effort to hobble his campaign.