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Joshua Steinglass, one of the Manhattan prosecutors in the case, asks to introduce evidence about the Trump 2016 campaign’s co-ordination with the National Enquirer - a tabloid newspaper.
He says that the publication had said it would promote positive stories about Trump and negative stories about Trump’s opponents, including Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio. Prosecutor Joshua Steinglass is now going after Trump’s recent attacks on potential witnesses, suggesting he violated the limited gag order in the case.
Trump’s attorney Todd Blanche pushes back on the prosecution's effort to introduce evidence from the National Enquirer. “The defendant himself has publicly embraced the public strategy of going after his perceived enemies,” Steinglass says.
“This evidence would do nothing but confuse the jury about the actual crime charged for several reasons,” Blanche says, describing the evidence as a “side show". As a reminder, Justice Merchan's gag order bans the 77-year-old from verbally attacking court staff, potential jurors and witnesses. It was also expanded to include family members of both Justice Merchan's and Bragg's.
Justice Merchan rules that prosecutors are allowed to introduce them and says he's happy that the defence agrees that the material is not "illegal or improper".
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