Threatening, Inflammatory, Denigrating
To avoid criminal and civil legal accountability, Trump has spent over $100 million donated by his supporters to his Save America and MAGA PACs, only to use that money for his legal strategy of lies, attacks, and delays.
Donald Trump's legal strategy is to delay his criminal trials past the election with an avalanche of motions based on unsubstantiated claims of political persecution, dubious constitutional theories, and personal attacks against judges, prosecutors, court personnel, and their families. Pushing Trump's lies of election fraud, some of his attorneys are now facing legal repercussions, including pleading guilty in Georgia and facing disbarment for conspiring with President Trump to "disrupt the electoral count." The Manhattan criminal trial Judge had enough of Trump's attacks and issued a gag order writing that Trump's “extrajudicial statements went far beyond defending himself" and are “threatening, inflammatory, denigrating.”
Former U.S. President Donald Trump is subject to a gag order in his Manhattan criminal trial, but the judge and his family are not included in the order. (Credit: Pool photo by Justin Lane)
Trump Spreads Apparent Hoax in Attacking Judge’s Daughter, New York Times | 3/27/2024
By Jesse McKinley and Ben Protess
Donald Trump said a photo of him behind bars on Loren Merchan’s X account meant he could not get a fair trial, but a court official said someone had appropriated the account.
Donald Trump fundraised off the Big Lie that the 2020 election was stolen, and used that money not to campaign but to pay legal bills, which now has put him in a financial bind ahead of the 2024 election.