Trump asks judge to free him from gag order now that hush-money trial is over

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : Trump is set to accept the GOP presidential nomination at this summer's Republican National Convention -- scheduled days after his July 11 sentencing.
38% : The request cited comments made about Trump by witnesses Michael Cohen and Stormy Daniels, ones made by Democrats outside the courthouse during closing arguments and remarks from President Biden last Friday, the day after the conviction.
32% : Last week, jurors took less than 12 hours to find Trump guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in a conspiracy to defraud the voting public in 2016 following the seven-week trial, constituting the first criminal conviction of a U.S. president in the nation's history.
30% : Trump appeared to violate it yet again at a press conference the morning after his conviction in remarks alluding to Cohen, Daniels and Merchan's daughter.
27% : In a letter to state Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan, Trump's defense team said his order barring extrajudicial statements by Trump implemented before the trial as a security measure should be lifted.
24% : Days after being found guilty in his Manhattan hush-money case, Donald Trump on Tuesday asked to be freed from a gag order preventing public attacks against jurors, witnesses and the judge's daughter as the former president awaits sentencing.

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