Donald Trump loathes the gag order that has been imposed on him, complaining about it and the "kangaroo court" responsible for imposing it just about ever time he enters or exits the Manhattan court where he's on trial, accused of falsifying business records to cover up an election-eve hush payment to a porn star. He's already violated the order at least 10 times, forcing the former president to lean on a crop of Republican "surrogates" to make all the attacks — on witnesses, the jury, the legal system — that he would like to make himself, were he not threatened with jail.
But with the prosecution expected to rest its case this week, Trump now has an opportunity to spell out, in his own words, in a setting where he's totally allowed to do so, why the witnesses against him are liars, why the whole trial is a "sham" and why he shouldn't be convicted of the 34 felony charges against him: He himself could take the stand.
