By the time Justice Juan Merchan held Tuesday’s hearing in Donald Trump’s business records falsification case, the district attorney had accumulated 10 instances in which the four-times-indicted former president had violated the court’s order prohibiting him from threatening witnesses and jurors. The question was not really whether Trump had violated the gag order, but what, if anything, was Merchan going to do to protect jurors, witnesses and the integrity of the court.
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