Donald Trump's lawyers ask for gag order to be lifted

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

38% : Trump was convicted Thursday of 34 counts of falsifying business records arising from what prosecutors said was an attempt to cover up a hush money payment to Ms Daniels just before the 2016 election.
35% : She claims she had a sexual encounter with Trump a decade earlier, which he denies.
27% : The judge later expanded it to prohibit comments about his own family after Trump made social media posts attacking the judge's daughter, a Democratic political consultant.
27% : "Trump has continued to operate under the belief that he's still muzzled, telling reporters on Friday at Trump Tower: "I'm under a gag order, nasty gag order.
25% : In a letter sent on Tuesday, Trump's lawyers Todd Blanche and Emil Bove asked Judge Juan M Merchan to end the order, arguing there is nothing to justify "continued restrictions on the First Amendment rights of President Trump" now the trial is over.
22% : "Referring to Mr Cohen, Trump said: "I'm not allowed to use his name because of the gag order" before slamming his former lawyer-turned-courtroom foe as "a sleazebag".
17% : The lawyers said Trump is entitled to "unrestrained campaign advocacy" in light of President Joe Biden's public comments about the verdict and continued public criticism of him by his ex-lawyer Michael Cohen and porn actor Stormy Daniels, both key prosecution witnesses.

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