Legal expert spotlights likely target in Trump’s possible gag order violations

Nearly one month after Donald Trump's criminal conviction in his hush money trial, a New York Court of Appeals shot down the ex-president's request to have his gag order lifted on Tuesday.

The order, issued by presiding Judge Juan Merchan, demands that Trump refrains from attacking jurors, witnesses, court staff and their families.

The MAGA hopeful believes he should be able to talk openly about the case now that the jury has convicted him of all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, but prosecutors urged the court to keep the gag order in place until Trump's sentencing on July 11.

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MSNBC legal correspondent Lisa Rubin told Katy Tur Reports host Katy Tur that the former president has likely violated the order — the judge just doesn't know it yet.

Regarding "whether Trump has violated the gag order — I think we will hear from the district attorney's office that both during the trial itself and in its aftermath, he has violated it in ways they have not brought to Judge Merchan's attention," Rubin emphasized. "

In particular, with respect to one participant, Matthew Colangelo, an assistant district attorney who came from the Department of Justice where he was doing a short stint. He has been much more involved in New York law enforcement, having served in the New York attorney general's office, and now in the D.A.'s office.

But when he talks about Matthew Colangelo, he uses him as the throughline between [President] Joe Biden and Alvin Bragg, alleging that there's some collusion. There is absolutely no basis for that and, in fact, a number of facts that would suggest that's just flatly false."

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