Former President Donald Trump took to Truth Social Friday evening, writing that Vice President Kamala Harris, who is seeking the Democrat Party’s nomination, is conducting a witch hunt against him.
“Can anybody believe that I am still under a harsh Gag Order, placed on me by a Highly Conflicted, Unelected, and Acting New York Judge, which makes it very difficult to Campaign, especially when Crazy Kamala Harris is using this Witch Hunt against me,” Trump wrote. “Every major Legal Scholar and Pundit has said that this case is a SCAM and a HOAX, and that I did nothing wrong. Story after story has been written that the Judge had no right to do what he did, that it was a political decision against the Opponent of Crooked Joe Biden and Crazy Kamala.”
On Thursday, a New York state appeals court rejected Trump’s challenge to a gag order in his hush-money case. Judge Juan Merchan’s latest ruling did loosen restrictions around what the former president could comment on publicly. Trump was convicted in May on charges related to hush money paid to adult film actor Stormy Daniels.
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