Donald Trump’s day in court Thursday began the same way it began on Tuesday: with his lawyer appealing to the judge that the former president’s posts about some key witnesses were not in violation of the court’s gag order.
Prosecutors in the New York criminal hush money case highlighted four posts Trump made this week, two aimed at former lawyer Michael Cohen and two at media executive David Pecker, who testified in the case just last week.
Trump and Pecker have “no animosity,” Todd Blanche argued to the judge. Cohen, on the other hand, has been “inviting and almost daring” the ex-president to respond to his public remarks, he said, arguing that witnesses like Cohen and Stormy Daniels do not “need to be protected.”