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Gloria Oladipo

Manhattan district attorney asks judge to extend gag order against Trump

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Alvin Bragg speaks in New York on 13 September 2023. Photograph: Mary Altaffer/AP

Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney who prosecuted Donald Trump in his felony trial, has asked a judge to extend a gag order against the ex-president after an onslaught of threats and harassment against him and other officials since the guilty verdict.

The gag order was placed on Trump before the start of the felony trial. It prevented the former president from attacking witnesses, court staff, jurors and relatives of Judge Juan Merchan, who oversaw the trial.

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