‘Unthinkable’: President Trump Responds to Reinstatement of Gag Order

The gag order prevents the former president from making public statements about certain people involved in the indictment.

Former President Donald Trump looks on during a break at a Manhattan courthouse as he attends the trial in a civil fraud case brought by state Attorney General Letitia James against him, his adult sons, the Trump Organization, and others in New York City on Oct. 4, 2023. Mike Segar/Reuters

Former President Donald Trump has criticized the reinstatement of a gag order against him in a federal indictment case, insisting that the restrictions take away his free speech rights “in the middle of my campaign for President.”

“I have just learned that the very Biased, Trump-Hating Judge in D.C., who should have RECUSED herself due to her blatant and open loathing of your favorite President, ME, has reimposed a GAG ORDER which will put me at a disadvantage against my prosecutorial and political opponents,” President Trump said in an Oct. 30 Truth Social post. “This order, according to many legal scholars, is unthinkable!