Prosecutors’ request to impose media restrictions on Trump
US prosecutors have demanded a media ban on Donald Trump for commenting on the case of hush money payments to an unethical film actor. |
According to the international group Tasnim News Agency
, U.S. prosecutors, in a petition, asked a New York district judge in Manhattan to limit media coverage of Donald Trump’s public comments about witnesses in the impeachment trial. Silence for an actor to consider immoral movies.
Accordingly, in this petition, which was brought by the Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Berg’s office, it is requested that the identity of the judges in this case should not be disclosed.
Trump as the Republican frontrunner for the 2024 election, is scheduled to be held on March 25 , to appear in the court hearing of his accusations regarding the payment of hush money to Stormy Daniels, the actress of immoral films. This is one of the 4 impeachment cases against Trump.
In this case, he is accused of falsifying business documents to cover up a $130,000 fee paid to Stormy Daniels by his former attorney Michael Cohen shortly before the 2016 election. Daniels took the money to keep quiet about her alleged sexual relationship with Trump about a decade earlier. But Trump has denied having any relationship with Daniels.
Steven Chang, the spokesperson of the Trump campaign, said: “The imposition of media restrictions in this case violates Trump’s right to freedom of speech. This is an obvious and simple interference in the elections.
By imposing media restrictions in a case, judges restrict the accused or the accused or other people involved in the case from speaking publicly and commenting on people and various aspects of the judicial process in order to avoid intimidation and threats to witnesses or judges of the case and or court staff should be prevented.
If the ruling is upheld by Judge Juan Mercan, the media restriction would prohibit Trump from commenting or encouraging others to comment on the witnesses in the case regarding their role in the case.
The district prosecutor’s office also The judge ordered that Trump be barred from commenting on the prosecutors in the case, with the exception of Berg and court staff. Trump previously called Berg an animal of a corrupt psychopath.
Judge Mercan on February 15 of this year rejected Trump’s request to dismiss his charges on the grounds that the case has bipartisan goals and that state laws do not apply to federal elections. .
According to this report, an appeals court of Donald Trump’s comment about Possible witnesses in the case limited attempts to change the results of the 2020 election.
He wrote in a post on the social network Truth Social: “The Court of Appeal imposed a broad media ban against me in the January 6 case, where the non-selective committee 6 January has destroyed almost all the documents in the case, assuming I am prevented from speaking and telling the truth effectively.
Trump continued in other words Other people can speak violently and viciously against me or attack me in any way, but I am not allowed to respond to them gently. What is the First Amendment to the US Constitution? What is happening in our country?
Former Judge Chatkan, Donald Trump from The verbal and verbal attack against prosecutors, court staff and possible witnesses in the case prevented his attempt to change the results of the 2020 election.
Qazi Chatkan with Referring to the insulting posts published by Trump on social networks, he said: he will not allow the former president to launch a smear campaign against the people involved in this case.
Previously, Trump and his lawyers in this case were not allowed to verbally attack Jack Smith, the special investigator of the case.
Furthermore, according to this ruling, Trump He should refrain from intimidation and verbal attacks against possible witnesses of the case.
The ruling came after a judge suspended one of Trump’s lawyers for posting on social media. impeached. In this post, Trump called Jack Smith a crazy and criminal person and the city of Washington is a place for dirty crimes.
Currently, Republican front-runner Donald Trump is facing multiple criminal charges: attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 election and his supporters’ attack on the Capitol in January 2021, keeping classified documents at his personal villa in Florida. After leaving the White House, paying hush money to an unscrupulous movie star, and trying to sway the election results in the state of Georgia. He is also involved in fraud and financial charges. In addition, the former American president is facing a case of paying damages to a writer who accused him of sexual assault.
But Trump denied doing any wrongdoing in these cases and brought these charges only with He knows the political motive and with the aim of excluding him from the 2024 election contest.
If Trump is re-elected president, he could face any federal charges against ask for pardon himself.
Trump has also won intra-party primaries in the states of Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada and South Carolina by significant margins over his other rivals.
The US presidential election will be held on November 5, 2024. Currently, Joe Biden is the leading candidate of the Democrats and Donald Trump is the leading candidate of the Republicans in the polls. .
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