Trump’s Own Impeachment Lawyer Urges Judge to Keep Former President Gagged:

A former impeachment lawyer for Donald Trump said the ex-president should remain under a gag order while he awaits sentencing in his New York criminal trial.

Trump was found guilty by a Manhattan jury last month on 34 counts of falsifying business records to conceal hush money payments to cover up extramarital affairs ahead of the 2016 election. During the trial, Judge Juan Merchan imposed a gag order on Trump to prevent him from attacking witnesses, jurors, and family members of court staff. At one point, Merchan ruled that Trump had repeatedly violated the order.

After the conviction, prosecutors are seeking to maintain the gag order until the former president is sentenced. In a filing on Friday, they claimed that officials logged 56 “actionable” threats during and after the trial, in addition to hundreds of threatening calls and emails. Trump’s lawyers want the order lifted.