Former President Donald Trump faces sentencing in a New York court next month for crimes related to hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniel.
New York prosecutors told a judge they oppose a request by former President Donald Trump to lift the gag order on him after he was found guilty in his criminal hush money case.
The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office asked Judge Juan Merchan to keep the gag order on Trump in place “at least through the sentencing hearing” on July 11 and “the resolution of any post-trial motions.”
Trump’s lawyers this week asked Merchan to vacate the gag order, arguing that the grounds for it no longer exist because the trial had concluded with Trump being convicted last Thursday on all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in connection with a 2016 hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels.
