Trump Case: “John Gotti, Lucky Luciano Weren’t Silenced the Way President Trump was”, Experts say
The former president, Donald Trump, was found guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree last week. The six-week trial stemmed from charges brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. Trump will be sentenced on July 11, just days before the Republican National Convention, Fox News reports.
Merchan imposed the gag order on Trump before the trial began, barring Trump from making or directing others to make public statements about witnesses with regard to their potential participation or about counsel in the case – other than Bragg – or about court staff, DA staff or family members of staff.
John Shu, a constitutional attorney who served in both Bush administrations, noted that some of New York’s highest-profile defendants were not subject to such a gag order as the 45th president.
“The Manhattan DA’s office has charged all kinds of high-profile criminal defendants throughout its history, ranging from celebrities to gangsters, such as Lucky Luciano, the head of La Commissione, and they weren’t silenced the way former President Trump was,” said Shu.
“Neither was John Gotti, the former head of the Gambino crime family and known as the ‘Teflon Don,’” he said, though that was a federal case.
“Say what you want about Donald Trump, but he’s not a mobster,” Shu added.
Steven Cheung, Trump campaign spokesperson, said in a statement, “President Trump and his legal team will continue to fight against the unconstitutional Gag Order imposed by Justice Merchan.”
“The Gag Order wrongfully silences the leading candidate for President of the United States, President Trump, at the height of his campaign. The Gag Order applies only to President Trump and not to any of his political opponents, critics, or even Crooked Joe Biden,” Cheung wrote.
“The Election Interfering Gag Order violates the First Amendment rights of President Trump and all American voters, who have a fundamental right to hear his message,” he added.
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