Tuberville Admits Republicans Went to Trump’s Trial to Circumvent the Gag Order
String of prominent right-wing officials are appearing in NY courtroom
Prominent elected MAGA Republicans are parading through the New York courtroom where Donald Trump’s the first former US president to stand trial as a criminal defendant to help Trump evade the gag order imposed on him by the judge in the case.
That’s according to one such Republican — Sen Tommy Tuberville, of Alabama — who admitted as much in an on-camera interview with a right-wing media outlet.
Tuberville, House Speaker Mike Johnson and Sen JD Vance are among the prominent office holders who, in recent days, have made appearances in the courtroom where Trump is standing trial for falsifying business records in an alleged scheme right before the 2016 presidential election to pay off a porn star who says that she had an extramarital affair with Trump.
After Trump made a variety of vitriolic and potentially threatening social media posts and other statements, Justice Juan Merchan — the judge overseeing Trump's trial on 34 counts — issued his original order in March, barring Trump from discussing likely witnesses, jurors, attorneys and court staff involved in the case. Merchan later expanded it to apply to his daughter.
Trump has chafed at the order, claiming that it infringes his rights, and Merchan has held him in contempt of court for violating the order 10 times. Last week, he warned the presumptive Republican nominee for president that he could be sent to jail for future violations.
So other MAGA Republicans are coming to New York to make attacks on Trump’s behalf to evade the gag order, Tuberville said.
“We weren’t able to speak inside with the media. They made us go outside. This judge has pretty much got everybody hogtied, I would call, from President Trump on down, anybody on his side. But anybody that’s against President Trump and the Republican Party, they get to do whatever,” claimed without mentioning Trump’s current status as a criminal defendant. “This gag order is ridiculous. It’s weaponization of the political system. They’re trying to deter the next president of the United States from having a say so in his own trial. He pretty much can’t defend itself.
“So I was really disappointed, Chris, on how this whole thing was run. But President Trump’s in good spirits. I spent a day with him. Hopefully we have more and more senators and congressmen go up every day to represent him and be able to go out and overcome this gag order,” Tuberville said. “That’s one of the reasons we went, is to be able to speak our piece for President Trump.”
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