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Trump’s post-conviction team spent the day trying to un-ring the bell, while the legal and campaign fallout kept widening.
June 4 was one of those aftershock days where the damage from Trump’s New York conviction kept metastasizing instead of fading. His lawyers asked to lift the gag order that had restrained him during the hush-money trial, a move that underscored how much his own courtroom conduct had become part of the political problem. At the same time, the broader post-verdict fight kept feeding the narrative that Trump’s campaign was now built around grievance, not governance.
The through-line here is simple: Trump did not get to move on, because the verdict had already moved on him. On June 4, the post-conviction cleanup only made the original screwup look larger, more expensive, and harder to spin away.
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Donald Trump’s lawyers asked on June 4, 2024, to lift the hush-money trial gag order after his conviction. The defense said the restrictions should not stay in place through sentencing, while prosecutors argued the order should remain until then because it was put in place to protect the trial and court participants.