Prosecutors Argue Trump Violated Gag Order FOUR TIMES in the Last Three Days

Prosecutors in former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial argued Thursday morning that he had committed four more violations of the gag order in the last three days.

Trump is facing 34 felony counts for falsifying business records regarding alleged hush money payments to adult film actress Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election — a historic first-ever criminal trial of a former U.S. president. The ex-president has made headlines for reportedly falling asleep repeatedly (at least four times so far) and his ongoing grumbling about the gag order imposed by Judge Juan Merchan.

At a hearing Tuesday morning regarding the gag orders, Merchan sharply scolded Trump attorney Todd Blanche, raising his voice several times in frustration and even warning him at one point, “You’re losing all credibility with the court!” The judge said he would “reserve decision” on the matter, meaning he will issue an order at some later time, which could happen at any moment.

Most legal experts doubt that Merchan will actually toss the ex-president in the slammer, instead expecting the judge to impose fines, but it is technically an option that’s on the table — if not for the previous alleged violations, then for Trump’s continued comments attacking prosecution witnesses.

Before former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker could be brought back to the stand to continue his testimony about an alleged “catch and kill” scheme to buy and bury scandalous stories about Trump, prosecutors brought up the former president’s ongoing attacks on witnesses, arguing that he had committed four violations just in the past three days.

According to CNN, prosecutor Chris Conroy cited two examples of Trump speaking outside of the courtroom, an interview where he said the jury was picked quickly and claimed it was 95% Democrats, and another comment outside the courtroom where he said Pecker was “very nice.”

Conroy described this comment as a message to other witnesses from Trump to let them know he has a platform he will use to comment on them and their testimony: “This is a message to Pecker. Be nice. It’s a message to others.”

Merchan did not appear to react to Conroy’s arguments and the trial moved on to Pecker’s third day of testimony without him issuing a ruling on either the past alleged gag order violations or the new ones.

Watch the clip above via CNN.