Photo: ReutersTrump lashes out at court clerk online just hour after suspending gag order
New York judge provisionally lifted the gag order, opening a window through which Trump could vent his unbridled feelings.
Just an hour after a gag order barring Donald Trump from commenting on court officials in his civil fraud trial in New York was temporarily lifted, he was at it again — unleashing a blitzkrieg of social media outrage against clerk who has become a lightning rod for the former president's ire.
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On Thursday afternoon, New York Court of Appeals Judge David Friedman suspended a gag order placed on Trump last month. This move opened a window through which Trump could pour out his unbridled feelings.
The opportunity was taken advantage of almost immediately. An hour after the gag order was lifted, one of Trump's close associates, senior adviser Jason Miller, reached out to X, the social network formerly known as Twitter.
“President Trump can't get a fair trial when Democrats send partisan attack dogs to do their dirty work,” he said. He then linked to a website dedicated to attacking Allison Greenfield, a clerk who was assisting Judge Arthur Engoron in the trial of a $250 million civil suit that was deciding the fate of the former president's New York family business, the Trump Organization, is hanging.< /p>
The site calls Greenfield a “Democratic operative and hacker” and accuses her of “unethical Democratic partisan activities.” It also suggests that Engoron be «investigated and removed from office.»
Soon after, Trump himself entered the fray. On his social network Truth Social, he called Greenfield a “politically biased and out of control clerk who hates Trump.”
He also accused Engoron of promoting business. and jobs from New York, and derided Letitia James, the New York attorney general who sued him, as a “global disgrace.”
Trump is facing a civil lawsuit in New York over allegations that the Trump Organization fraudulently inflated the value of its assets for financial gain. Trump, his sons Eric and Don Jr., and other Trump Organization executives are involved. His daughter Ivanka is not a defendant, but the prosecution has asked her to testify as a witness. Donald Trump also made a dramatic speech.
Engoron has already granted summary judgment in pre-trial proceedings, finding Trump guilty of fraud and revoking his business license. Trump is appealing. A Manhattan court is set to unravel the details of the fraud.
Engoron placed Trump under a gag order on Oct. 3 after the former president posted a photo of Greenfield with Chuck Schumer, the Democratic Senate majority leader. USA, which was taken from her Instagram feed. Trump ridiculed the court clerk, calling her «Schumer's girl.»
The judge said the gag order was necessary to protect his employees from threats. He said his office has received hundreds of threatening phone calls, letters and packages. He did not impose a gag on himself.
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Trump had already been found to have violated a gag order and was fined $15,000.
But in an emergency hearing Thursday, Friedman, sitting on the New York State Intermediate Court of Appeals, found that Trump's First Amendment right to free speech was paramount. He violated a gag order.
Trump faced similar restrictions on his speech imposed by federal Judge Tanya Chutkan as part of a criminal prosecution for his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. . That gag order was also frozen by a federal appeals court.
On Wednesday, Trump filed a motion for a mistrial in the New York civil case. The motion accuses Engoron of “bias” and “improper joint judging” on the panel.
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