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In the run-up to his trial, which centers on his attempts to reverse the 2020 election, former US President Donald Trump has been given a limited gag order by a judge in the United States. The former president and his lawyers cannot make any inflammatory remarks against special counsel Jack Smith, his team, the court, or any potential witnesses. On Tuesday, US District Judge Tanya Chutkan made it clear that she would not stand for the former president’s “pretrial smear campaign” against the defendants.
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After a long hearing in federal court in Washington D.C., the ruling came on a request by Smith and his team to restrict Trump’s ability to publicly discuss the Justice Department’s case against him. The judge said, “This is not about whether I like the language Mr. Trump uses. This is about language that presents a danger to the administration of justice.” She went on to say that his tendency to attack others, such as the special counsel’s wife and a court clerk in his New York civil fraud case, “deeply disturbed” her.
