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On June 12, 2024, Trump’s legal team kept punching at the Manhattan gag order that still boxed him in after his felony conviction — a reminder that the case was not going away just because he wanted the conversation to move on.
The strongest Trump-world screwup on June 12 was not a new indictment or a fresh scandal. It was the continuing fallout from the Manhattan hush-money conviction, where Trump’s lawyers again asked to end the gag order that limits what he can say about witnesses, jurors, and other people tied to the case. The filing underscored a basic problem for Trump: the legal system was still setting the terms of the post-conviction conversation, and his team was still fighting to regain control of a story that had already ended badly for him in court.
The day’s big Trump story was less about a new blowup than about the persistence of an old one. He had been convicted, he was still constrained, and every attempt to shrug it off only kept the guilty verdict and the courtroom restraints in the headlines.
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Trump’s lawyers renewed their bid to end the gag order in the Manhattan hush-money case, while prosecutors said the restrictions should stay in place until sentencing on July 11. The filing extends a fight that began days after the May 30 verdict and now turns on how much the court still needs to protect the case before final judgment.