Trump Says Judge Should Remove Gag Order as Day 2 of Criminal Trial Begins

Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday criticized the judge overseeing the “hush-money” case in Manhattan, coming before he attended his second day in court, and said that a gag order that was imposed on him should be removed.

“This conflicted, Trump Hating Judge won’t let me respond to people that are on TV lying and spewing hate all day long. He is running rough shod over my lawyers and legal team. The New York System of ‘Justice’ is being decimated by critics from all over the World. I want to speak, or at least be able to respond. Election Interference! RIGGED, UNCONSTITUTIONAL TRIAL! Take off the Gag Order!!!” the former president wrote on Truth Social before he entered court Tuesday.

The former president added that he should be campaigning for the White House instead of being in court.

“I should be in Pennsylvania, Florida, in many other states,” President Trump told reporters at the Manhattan court. “This is all coming from the Biden White House because the guy can’t put two sentences together.”

The trial, he added, “never should have happened” and “should have been thrown out a long time ago.” Responding to the charges against him, President Trump said that he was “paying a lawyer and it was marked down as a legal expense. That’s exact.”

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