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Donald Trump is now daring the judge in his Manhattan trial to throw him in jail for violating his gag order.
Leaving court on Monday in week four of his trial, Trump told the gaggle of reporters staged near the courtroom how deeply unfair, outrageous, and unconstitutional the gag order is.
I have to watch every word I tell you people. You ask me a question and I can’t talk about it because this judge has given me a gag order and said you’ll go to jail if I violate it.
And frankly, you know what? Our constitution is much more important than jail. It’s not even close. I’ll do that sacrifice any day.
Merchan said:
I find you in criminal contempt for the 10th time. Going forward, this court will have to consider a jail sentence. The last thing I want to do is put you in jail.
Trump’s violation this time was commenting on the political makeup of the Manhattan jury pool, which he claimed was 95% Democrats. For Trump’s allusion to a «jury,» Merchan threatened for the second time to lock up the former president of the United States of America on bookkeeping charges. Misdemeanors.
After court, Trump said he would be willing to go to jail to make a point about the constitutional right to free speech.
Trump has thrown down the gauntlet. He’s attempting not only to force the hand of Judge Juan Merchan and prosecutors but also hopes, no doubt, to light a fire under the black robes of the appellate judges who have been sitting on his gag order appeal for two weeks.
