Gag order expanded after Trump attacks judge’s family
The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell
Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW
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🗓️ 2 April 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Well the breaking news of the night is that Donald Trump has been gagged again. |
| 0:04.6 | After a flurry of new filings at the end of the day from District Attorney Alvin Bragg, |
| 0:10.0 | asking Judge Juan Mershaun to expand his gag order and Donald Trump's |
| 0:14.1 | criminal defense lawyers filing their objection to expanding the gag order |
| 0:19.1 | claiming that Donald Trump did nothing wrong this weekend and attacking Judge Marshon's daughter. |
| 0:24.8 | Judge Marshon granted the district attorney's request to expand the gag order, |
| 0:29.7 | which now forbids Donald Trump from commenting on the judge's family or the district attorney's |
| 0:37.0 | family. Their families were not previously covered by the gag order. The judge also warned Donald Trump as requested by |
| 0:46.5 | the district attorney that if he continues to disrupt the case |
| 0:50.5 | Donald Trump will lose his legal right as a defendant to even know the names of his jurors in the case. |
| 1:00.0 | The first line of District Attorney Alvin Brake's filing in the case tonight says, quote, |
| 1:06.0 | defendants dangerous, violent, and reprehensible rhetoric fundamentally threatens the integrity of these proceedings and is intended to intimidate witnesses and trial participants alike including this court. |
| 1:20.0 | The district attorney is asking the judge to clarify or confirm that his previous |
| 1:25.9 | gag order on Donald Trump, quote protects family members of the court, the district attorney, and all other individuals mentioned in the order. |
| 1:35.0 | District attorney brag pointed out that a social media account that Donald Trump publicly ascribed to Judge |
| 1:41.3 | Mershon's daughter was, quote, |
| 1:43.6 | a fraudulent impersonation. |
| 1:46.4 | The district attorney added, quote, |
| 1:48.5 | there is no constitutional right |
| 1:51.1 | to target the family of this court, let alone on the blatant falsehoods that have served as the flimsiest pretexts for defendants attacks. |
| 2:02.0 | Defendant knows what he is doing, |
| 2:04.5 | and everyone else does too. |
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