Attorney Alina Habba said if her client Donald Trump is ordered to jail for violating the gag order in his Manhattan criminal trial, the former president “will be like Nelson Mandela.”
Trump is on trial on 34 counts of falsifying business records to obscure hush money payments to conceal extramarital affairs. He has pleaded not guilty. As he has done in other cases against him, Trump has made comments attacking the prosecution and the judge. However, in this instance Trump has gone a step further by attacking the daughter of Judge Juan Merchan. That prompted Merchan to issue an expanded gag order barring the ex-president from criticizing court staff and their families, though the order does not apply to Merchan or Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
Bragg fileda motion on Tuesday seeking to hold Trump in content of court for three social media posts he made regarding two of the witnesses in the …