WABC radio has suspended Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former New York City Mayor and legal representative for former President Donald J. Trump. John Catsimatidis, the establishment Republican billionaire owner of the station, said that Giuliani had violated his demands not to discuss the theft of the 2020election on air.
“We’re not going to talk about fallacies of the November 2020 election,” Mr. Catsimatidis told the New York Times. “We warned him once. We warned him twice. And I get a text from him last night, and I get a text from him this morning that he refuses not to talk about it.”
“So, he left me no option. I suspended him.”
John Catsimatidis and @77WABCradio fired me for refusing to comply with their overly broad directive stating I'm, ‘prohibited from engaging in conversations relating to the 2020 Presidential Election.’
Mr. Giuliani was a central figure in Mr. Trump’s endeavor to scrutinize the 2020 election results. He coordinated several legal disputes against Joe Biden’s claimed victory.
His suspension from WABC may potentially exacerbate his existing legal and financial challenges. It also restricts one of his few remaining public platforms. Currently, Mr. Giuliani faces criminal charges in Georgia and Arizona, arising from his role in attempting to overturn the 2020 election results.
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WABC radio has suspended Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former New York City Mayor and legal representative for former President Donald J. Trump. John Catsimatidis, the establishment Republican billionaire owner of the station, said that Giuliani had violated his demands not to discuss the theft of the 2020 election on air.
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Two members of the environmentalactivist group Just Stop Oil were arrested following an alleged vandalism to the Magna Carta display at the British Library. Reverend Sue Parfitt, 82, and retired biology teacher Judy Bruce, 85, used a chisel and a hammer to strike the glass case surrounding the groundbreaking charter, which is renowned for outlining foundational principles of individual liberty and the rule of law.
After causing minimal damage to the protective case, the duo held up a placard proclaiming, “The Government is breaking the law.” The two women then glued themselves to the exhibit using adhesive. British Library officials intervened to avert further damage. Staff reported the incident to the Metropolitan Police, who arrested the two activists for suspicion of criminal damage.
Despite the protesters’ destructive actions, the historic legal document remained unscathed, and officials referred to the harm to the case as “minimal.” Rev. Parfitt rationalized the act of vandalism, stating: “The Magna Carta is rightly revered, being of great importance to our history, to our freedoms, and to our laws.”
She continued: “But there will be no freedom, no lawfulness, no rights if we allow climate breakdown to become the catastrophe that is now threatened.”
“We must get things in proportion. The abundance of life on earth, the climate stability that allows civilization to continue is what must be revered and protected above all else, even above our most precious artifacts,” Rev. Parfitt concluded.
The Magna Carta, a historic English text enshrining the principle that no one, not even the king, is above the law, has been instrumental in developing many other vital documents, like the U.S. Constitution.
Two members of the environmentalactivist group Just Stop Oil were arrested following an alleged vandalism to the Magna Carta display at the British Library. Reverend Sue Parfitt, 82, and retired biology teacher Judy Bruce, 85, used a chisel and a hammer to strike the glass case surrounding the groundbreaking charter, which is renowned for outlining foundational principles of individual liberty and the rule of law.
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Black U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Roger Fortson was shot dead after an Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office deputy entered the wrong apartment, according to the lawyer representing the slain serviceman’s family.
“The circumstances surrounding Roger’s death raise serious questions that demand immediate answers from authorities, especially considering the alarming witness statement that the police entered the wrong apartment,” said Ben Crump, who has previously represented the families of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Trayvon Martin.
However, the killing of Fortson, an active-duty serviceman, has so far received little attention from Black Lives Matter activists compared to the killing of George Floyd, a violent convict.
“We are calling for transparency in the investigation into Roger’s death… His family and the public deserve to know what occurred in the moments leading up to this tragedy,” Crump said in the statement.
A witness who was on a recorded Facetime call with Fortson at the time of the incident says he called “Who is it?” after the deputy, responding to reports of a disturbance, knocked at his door. Not hearing a response, he is said to have armed himself after another “aggressive knock.”
Bodycam footage shows Fortson answering his door in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, holding his legally owned handgun at his side. The deputy shoots him multiple times within moments before shouting, “Drop the gun!”
Riots over George Floyd’s death in 2020 spread nationwide rapidly, claiming the lives of at least 19 people within a fortnight. Protests also took place outside the United States in Canada, Britain, and even non-English-speaking countries like Belgium, with protestors attacking police and vandalizing public property, particularly statues of historic white men.
Bodycam of #RogerFortson fatal police death. In the four-and-a-half minute, heavily redacted video, it is very troubling that the deputy shot multiple times within a split second of the door being opened, killing Roger. pic.twitter.com/ZngLhwsxX8
Black U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Roger Fortson was shot dead after an Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office deputy entered the wrong apartment, according to the lawyer representing the slain serviceman's family.
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Target plans to significantly scale back its LGBTQ Pride Month merchandise following backlash last year that hurt its sales.
The details:Target confirmed its Pride collection will only be available “in select stores” where sales justify their placement – roughly half of their nearly 2,000 locations.
Its 2024 collection of items will be much smaller than in years past.
The collection will still be available online.
Back up: For years, Target has rolled out massive LGBTQ Pride displays at all their locations in June and sold rainbow-themed merchandise for kids and adults.
2023 backlash: The retailer received intense backlash last year for selling LGBTQ items geared towards children that included “tuck-friendly” bathing suits [for boys who want to wear girls’ suits] and shirts that said, “Trans people will always exist.”
Hurting their bottom line:Target’s CEO Brian Cornell admitted the backlash led to a drop in the company’s second-quarter earnings in 2023.
Big picture: Brands, from Target to Bud Light, are officially on notice.
Nimarata ‘Nikki’ Haley is planning a rendezvous with wealthy backers of her failed Republican primary campaign. Scheduled to take place on Monday and Tuesday next week in Charleston, South Carolina, her goal is ostensibly to express her gratitude to donors. She is not expected to endorse Donald Trump, whom she formerly served as United Nations ambassador.
Sources close to the neoconservative have confirmed she does not plan to solicit donations to Trump’s election campaign at the gathering.
Some of Haley’s donors have not given up hope she will become the Republican presidential candidate in the future. “Sometimes it takes more than one run to secure the nomination. Look at John McCain and Mitt Romney,” said GOP fundraiser Eric Tanenblatt, who intends to attend the donor meeting, referencing the Never Trump neoconservatives who lost heavily to the Democrats in 2008 and 2012.
Haley ran on an old-fashioned platform of unconditional support for Israel, warmongering against Russia, and enforcing leftist speech codes against “hate.” She lost heavily to Trump, an America First populist, and in one primary in which Trump did not compete, she was still beaten badly by a “none of the above” option, suggesting the Republican base has moved past her brand of establishment neoconservatism.
Not all of her donors were even old-fashioned Republicans. Democrat Reid Hoffman, the LinkedIn billionaire connected to Jeffrey Epstein, invested in her campaign purely in the hope she would damage Trump.
Nimarata 'Nikki' Haley is planning a rendezvous with wealthy backers of her failed Republican primary campaign. Scheduled to take place on Monday and Tuesday next week in Charleston, South Carolina, her goal is ostensibly to express her gratitude to donors. She is not expected to endorse Donald Trump, whom she formerly served as United Nations ambassador.
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Judge Aileen Cannon, who has been managing the Joe Biden Justice Department’s case alleging former President Donald Trump mishandled classified documents, is being attacked by Democrats for postponing a trial date indefinitely. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on federal courts and oversight subcommittee, accuses Cannon of “deliberately slow-walking the case.”
Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) says Cannon is “managing this case in a way that is making it highly unlikely that it will be resolved in a timely fashion” – that is, before the presidential election in November, in which Trump is currently the favorite.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) complains he is unsure “whether this judge understands the magnitude or the legal import of this trial.”
Elie Honig, a CNN legal analyst not typically sympathetic to Trump, has suggested Biden’s special prosecutor, Jack Smith, appears to be rushing to convict Trump before November. “Just look at Jack Smith’s conduct in this case. The motivating principle behind every procedural request he’s made has been speed, has been getting this trial in before the election,” she observed in December.
However, Smith and his team bear much of the responsibility for the delays. Days before Cannon vacated a May 20 trial date, prosecutors admitted they may have tampered with evidence seized from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate. A month prior, she had to upbraid the prosecution for failing to address arguments raised by the defense multiple times.
When she indefinitely postponed the trial, she cited these “myriad and interconnected” outstanding issues.
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Judge Aileen Cannon, who has been managing the Joe Biden Justice Department's case alleging former President Donald Trump mishandled classified documents, is being attacked by Democrats for postponing a trial date indefinitely. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on federal courts and oversight subcommittee, accuses Cannon of “deliberately slow-walking the case.”
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CNN’s Fareed Zakaria is urging Joe Biden to adopt Donald Trump’s immigration policies. “The whole system is broken, and Biden needs to confront that and say, you know, ‘We are going to have to reform the whole system,’” he said.
“I would wish he’d do something much more extreme,” Zakaria said. “Like, say ‘the old asylum system is dead. No one is coming in through that process. You have to apply from your home country.’”
When interviewer Margaret Hoover pointed out that this was the “Trump policy,” the CNN host stumbled over his words slightly but acknowledged she was essentially correct.
“Which was a Trump– and also the Mexico, let– you know, you have to be in Mexico to apply,” he said, referencing Trump’s ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy.
“I think that’s all correct.”
Zakaria predicts adopting Trump’s policies will give Biden a better “political chance” in November. However, he also stresses the Trump policy is “the right policy, because the old asylum system is being gamed by millions of people.”
Immigration now ranks among inflation and the economy as one of voters’ top concerns. This includes among Democrats. Biden rates far below Trump in terms of his effectiveness on immigration and a range of other issues.
A majority of Americans believe Biden is actually encouraging illegal immigration to create a “permanent majority” for his party.
CNN's Fareed Zakaria says that President Joe Biden needs to implement former President Donald Trump's asylum policies to deal with the illegal immigration crisis.
He says that Trump's policies are "correct" and "the right policy because the old asylum system is being gamed by… pic.twitter.com/b8VsPqf8T5
CNN's Fareed Zakaria is urging Joe Biden to adopt Donald Trump's immigration policies. "The whole system is broken, and Biden needs to confront that and say, you know, ‘We are going to have to reform the whole system,’" he said.
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The Biden government “strongly opposes” the efforts of congressional Republicans to include a citizenship question on the census in order to prevent non-citizens from being counted for congressional apportionment. It claims that doing so would be costly and “make it more difficult to obtain accurate data.”
The Congressional Equal Representation Act is designed to exclude non-citizens from diluting the voting power of U.S. citizens and prevent states with high numbers of illegal residents from gaining undue, disproportional influence over the country. A significant number of the illegal aliens who have flooded across the U.S.-Mexico border since Joe Biden took office have ended up in Democratic cities and states.
The Biden Office of Management and Budget (OMB) said in a statement that it “strongly opposes” the bill as it would “preclude the Department of Commerce’s Census Bureau from performing its constitutionally mandated responsibility to count the number of persons in the United States in the decennial census.” The OMB also claims it would “increase the cost of conducting the census and make it more difficult to obtain accurate data” and “violate the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution.”
Republicans, however, contend that the Biden government is simply trying to secure political advantages for the Democratic Party that would come from counting illegal aliens in the census. “It is unconscionable that illegal immigrants and non-citizens are counted toward congressional district apportionment and our electoral map,” said Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) in January.
“While people continue to flee Democrat-run cities, desperate Democrats are back-filling the mass exodus with illegal immigrants so that they do not lose their seats in Congress or their electoral votes for the presidency, hence artificially boosting their political power and in turn diluting the power of other Americans’ votes.”
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The Biden government "strongly opposes" the efforts of congressional Republicans to include a citizenship question on the census in order to prevent non-citizens from being counted for congressional apportionment. It claims that doing so would be costly and "make it more difficult to obtain accurate data."
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As the Trump hush money trial entered its tenth day of testimony, defense attorneys for former President Donald J. Trump continued their cross-examination of pornographic actress Stormy Daniels. Defense attorney Susan Necheles continued to handle the questioning, picking up where she left off on Tuesday. The former President’s legal team continued drilling down on the motivations behind Daneils’s actions, including her decision to sell her story to the National Enquirer.
In addition to Daniels, the court — with Democrat-aligned JudgeJuanMerchan presiding — heard from three additional witnesses: Rebecca Manochio, a former assistant to Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg, Tracey Menzies, a publishing executive at Harper Collins, and Madeleine Westerhout — who served as former President Trump’s executive assistant at the White House.
After the lunch break and conclusion of Daniels’s testimony, Trump’s attorneys again moved for a mistrial. They filed two other motions pertaining to potential testimony from another accuser, Karen McDougal, and for changes to the court-issued gag order.
STORMY CONTINUED.
The defense’s cross-examination of Stormy Daniels began with Trump’s attorney Susan Necheles pressing the porn star on her motivations for going public with her story. The adult film actress insisted that she didn’t want money from Trump or his company or campaign. Instead, Daniels told Necheles — using puzzling logic — that she sold the story to ensure the public heard it.
“I was asking to sell my story to publications to get the truth out,” Daniels said under cross-examination by Necheles. This response will likely undermine Daniels’s credibility as she’s also acknowledged signing the nondisclosure agreement with the National Enquirer, meaning her story would not be published. Daniels admitted that other news outlets, includingSlate, wanted to publish her allegations, but the left-leaning website was unwilling to pay for the story.
PHANTOM THREATS REDUX.
Daniels continued to allude to unsubstantiated threats she and her family received. According to the porn actress, she signed the nondisclosure agreement to create a paper trail and protect her family from the unknown and unnamed individuals threatening them. Additionally, Daniels testified that if she had given the story to Slate or another outlet willing to pay, it would have put a target on her and her family’s backs. Not once did Daniels produce any concrete evidence of threats.
Note that she testified on Tuesday to a previously uncirculated claim that she was threatened to stay silent by an unknown man in a Las Vegas parking garage in 2011. She did not report the incident to police or inform her husband or daughter of the threat. Judge Juan Merchan expressed his dismay that Daniels had raised the story in court with no evidence to corroborate it.
DANIELS YELLS AT DAVIDSON.
A great deal of the cross-examination focused on the various ways Daniels has personally profited from her allegations of an affair with former President Trump. In an especially devastating moment for her credibility, Daniels was faced with a recording produced by Trump’s legal team where her former attorney, Keith Davidson, can be heard speaking with disgraced lawyer MichaelCohen, alluding to her motivations.
Davidson tells Cohen that Daniels “wanted this money more than you can ever imagine.” On the phone call, taped on April 4, 2018, Davidson recalls to Cohen: “I remember hearing her on the phone saying, ‘You — f–king Keith Davidson — you better settle this goddamn story.” According to her former attorney, Daniels called him a “p***y” and demanded he get her a good financial settlement in exchange for the story. He also told Cohen that Daniels told him, “We lose all f**king leverage” if Trump loses the 2016 election.
After being confronted with the phone call recording, Daniels denied having ever yelled at Davidson. “No I did not, actually, I never yelled at Keith Davidson,” she told Necheles.
MONEY, MONEY, MONEY!
“When Trump was indicted in this case, you celebrated on Twitter by repeatedly tweeting and pushing merchandise you were selling in your store, right?” Necheles pressed the porn star, driving at the financial motivations underpinning her ongoing attacks on Trump.
“I tweeted about him being indicted, yes. People asked how they could support me, so I tweeted the link to my store,” Daniels responded, attempting to dodge the fact she often used news about Trump‘s prosecution to sell merchandise. Showing the jury photos of Daniels’s social media posts, Nicheles asked: “That was you shilling your merchandise, right?”
“That is me doing my job,” the adult film actress responded.
When pressed if she made $100,000 from a documentary about her life and affair with Trump, Daniels became indignant. She refused to answer directly and snapped at Trump’s defense attorney, stating: “You’re trying to trick me into saying something that’s not entirely true.”
Necheles asked Daniels if she had had an affair with one of the cameramen while filming the documentary. Judge Mechan overruled an objection by the prosecution and directed Daniels to answer the question. The pornographic entertainer acknowledged that she did have an affair but claimed she was separated from her husband at the time.
Daniels was also forced to admit she profited from a strip club tour following her going public with her allegations. The tour was promoted with a photo of Daniels with Trump at the aforementioned Lake Tahoe Golf Tournament, where they first met.
I SEE DEAD PEOPLE.
Moving on from her financial motivations, Susan Necheles entered a line of inquiry that must have had the prosecution regretting their decision to put Daniels on the stand. While the adult film industry isn’t known for employing the most mentally sound individuals, Daniels’s side job as a ‘medium‘ between those living in this world and the one beyond may take the cake. Daniels admitted she tried to pitch a paranormal reality show following her newfound fame regarding her home in New Orleans, which she claims is haunted.
“It was a lot of interesting and unexplained activity,” the porn star explained, though she did admit: “A lot of the activity was completely debunked as a giant possum.” In 2022, Daniels described a “non-human thing with tentacles” that frequented her home and would break items. She claimed the ‘haunting’ negatively impacted her mental health.
Necheles pressed Daniels further on whether she claimed she could speak with people’s dead relatives. While the adult entertainer said she did make such claims, she added that it was “all entertainment.”
STORMY STANDS BY THE STORY.
The over six hours of testimony — over two days — by Daniels came to a close with Necheles pressing the porn actress on whether she made the affair allegations up. Trump’s defense team noted the multiple inaccuracies in her story and the fact that its details have changed over time. The National Pulse reported that a previous iteration of her alleged sexual encounter with Trump insinuated that Danials was the aggressor — something she now denies, insinuating she was, in essence, assaulted.
Defending the shifting details, Daniels insisted that she can’t control what quotes end up in magazine interviews or how the reporter framed events. On several occasions, the porn actress was forced to clarify her prior statements when confronted with her inconsistentrecollections.
After the defense team finished its cross-examination, the prosecution engaged in a brief redirect. Daniels was again asked about the unsubstantiated threats against her and her family and if this is what motivated her to sign the nondisclosure agreement. Again, Daniels insisted this was the case.
THE BOOK KEEPER AND PUBLISHER.
Following the marathon testimony of Stormy Daniels, prosecutors moved on to Rebecca Manochio — the former assistant to Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg. Like with other testimony from former Trump Organization financial staff, the prosecution focused its questioning on the check signing process and which company executives can approve payments.
The goal of this questioning by the Manhattan District Attorney‘s office is to insinuate that former President Trump not only signed the checks but was aware of their purpose. Thus far, they’ve presented no actual evidence that this is the case.
Following a brief cross-examination of Manochio, during which she acknowledged she never directly interacted with Trump, Harper Collins executive Tracey Menzies was called to the stand next. Prosecutor Rebecca Mangold handled the questioning, which consisted entirely of Menzies reading sections of a book co-authored by Trump. The prosecution’s goal appears to have been to underscore certain controversial statements printed in the book regarding loyalty and getting even.
Under cross-examination, Trump’s defense attorney, Todd Blanche, asked Menzies if she was part of the team that published Trump’s book. “No, I was not,” she replied. Pushing further, Blanche asked Menzies if she had selected the excerpts read in court. She said she had not.
THE FINAL WITNESS FOR THE DAY.
The tenth day of testimony ended with former President Trump‘s personal assistant at the White House, Madeleine Westerhout, taking the stand. The protection asked Westerhout mostly about check signing procedures, but other topics also arose. When asked about the Access Hollywood tape, Westerhout told the prosecution, “At the time, I recall it rattling RNC leadership.”
“It’s my recollection there were conversations about how to, if it was needed, how it would be possible to replace him as the candidate if it came to that,” Westerhout added.
Westerhout was asked what implements Trump would use to sign documents and checks. She recalled, “He liked to use Sharpies or, I believe, a Pentel felt-tip pen.” She also acknowledged that the former President liked to review and read any document before he signed it. When asked whether Trump and Cohen had a close relationship in the early days of the presidential administration, Westerhout responded: “At that time, yes.”
‘A REALLY GOOD BOSS.’
Trump defense attorney Susan Necheles also handled Westerhout’s cross-examination. When asked why Westerhout later wrote a book about her time in the TrumpWhite House, the former aide replied, “I thought it was real important to share with the American people the man that I got to know.”
She added, “I don’t think he’s treated fairly, and I wanted to tell that story.”
Westerhout told the court that the former President wasn’t nearly as concerned about the Access Hollywood tape as those around him.
“He never once made me feel that I didn’t deserve that job and that I didn’t belong there. Especially in an office filled with older men, he never made me feel like I didn’t belong there. He was a really good boss,” Westerhout told Necheles, adding: “I found him very enjoyable to work for.”
With that, the court adjourned for the day, but not before Judge JuanMerchan considered three new motions by Trump‘s defense team.
JUDGE DENIES MISTRIAL MOTION AGAIN.
Former President DonaldTrump‘s defense team again motioned for a mistrial, citing the unsubstantiated, unrelated, and prejudicial testimony from Stormy Daniels. Again, Judge Juan Merchan denied the motion. A second motion to bar testimony from the second Trump accuser, Karen McDougal, a former Playboy Playmate, was vacated as District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s prosecutors announced they would no longer be calling her as a witness. A third motion regarding the extent of the court’s gag order on former President Donald Trump did not receive an immediate ruling.
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As the Trump hush money trial entered its tenth day of testimony, defense attorneys for former President Donald J. Trump continued their cross-examination of pornographic actress Stormy Daniels. Defense attorney Susan Necheles continued to handle the questioning, picking up where she left off on Tuesday. The former President's legal team continued drilling down on the motivations behind Daneils's actions, including her decision to sell her story to the National Enquirer.
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Former President Donald Trump‘s legal team has appealed to a New York state court to undertake a sped-up review on a currently imposed gag order, Trump announced on Thursday. The application was submitted on Wednesday; however, its contents and responses from the Manhattan District Attorney are sealed.
Trump maintains that the order, which restricts him from discussing certain individuals tied to his ongoing hush-money trial, infringes on First Amendment rights and hampers meaningful discussion surrounding the proceedings.
“I just want to let you know that we’ve just filed a major motion in the appellate division concerning the absolutely unconstitutional gag order, where I’m essentially not allowed to talk to you about anything meaningful that’s going on in the case. And many good things are going on with the case. It shouldn’t have been filed,” Trump said.
The gag order enforced by Judge Juan Merchan constrains Trump from publicly discussing potential witnesses, court employees, legal practitioners’ staff, or family members. Merchan increased its scope after former President Trump reportedly violated the order on ten occasions; he informed the former President that further breaches might necessitate imprisonment.
Merchan also administered a fine against Trump, responding to an April comment he made to a media outlet about the Manhattan jury pool, which he claimed comprised 95 percent Democrats. The judge has also insinuated the possibility of jailing Trump.
Trump’s earlier appeal to pause his trial to challenge the gag order’s enforcement was rejected by the New York Court of Appeals.
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Former President Donald Trump's legal team has appealed to a New York state court to undertake a sped-up review on a currently imposed gag order, Trump announced on Thursday. The application was submitted on Wednesday; however, its contents and responses from the Manhattan District Attorney are sealed.
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