Donald Trump's lawyers ask judge to lift gag order imposed during New York trial

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

45% : The trial is over, but Trump has continued to operate under the belief that he's still muzzled.
37% : "During the trial, Merchan held Trump in contempt of court, fined him $10,000 for violating the gag order and threatened to put him in jail if he did it again.
35% : 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 Daniels just before the 2016 election.
35% : She claims she had a sexual encounter with Trump a decade earlier, which he denies.
28% : "Trump has continued to operate under the belief that he's still muzzled, telling reporters Friday at Trump Tower: "I'm under a gag order, nasty gag order.
26% : Merchan 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.
23% : "Referring to 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.
19% : Merchan declined to sanction Trump for an April 10 social media post, which referred to Cohen and Daniels, another key prosecution witness, by that insult.
18% : In a letter Tuesday, Trump lawyers Todd Blanche and Emil Bove asked Judge Juan M. Merchan to end the gag order, arguing there is nothing to justify "continued restrictions on the First Amendment rights of President Trump" now that the trial is over.
14% : Among other reasons, the lawyers said Trump is entitled to "unrestrained campaign advocacy" in light of President Joe Biden's public comments about the verdict last Friday, 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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