EXCLUSIVE Trump's lawyers believe a Manhattan judge will impose a GAG order on Monday that will BAN him.

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EXCLUSIVE Trump's lawyers believe a Manhattan judge will impose a GAG order on Monday that will BAN him talking about his Tuesday arrest in NYC - with a penalty of 30 DAYS jail time or $1,000 fine
Trump could be gagged by a Manhattan court on Monday ahead of hearing
His legal team is considering hiring a First Amendment lawyer, a source said
It comes as Trump prepares to fly to New York to be formally arraigned
By ROB CRILLY, SENIOR U.S. POLITICAL REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 18:24 BST, 2 April 2023 | UPDATED: 16:17 BST, 3 April 2023


Donald Trump's legal team is preparing for a New York judge to slap a gag order on the former president on Monday, DailyMail.com can reveal, a day before he is due to be arrested in Manhattan.

The extraordinary move to potentially silence a candidate for president will likely enflame Trump's supporters as he prepares to fly out of his Florida home.

'The Trump legal team now thinks that the Manhattan judge will take the unprecedented step of silencing the presidential frontrunner with an unconstitutional gag order tomorrow,' said a source.

The Trump legal team is considering adding a First Amendment lawyer to the effort to combat this and will fight it all the way.'

Breaking the gag order could trigger a fine of $1000 and a prison sentence of as much as 30 days, under New York law.

On Sunday morning, Trump's campaign announced that the former president would make a speech at his Mar-a-Lago home on Tuesday evening after returning from New York.

That could now be in doubt.

But it did not change his Sunday schedule. He headed to his West Palm Beach golf club where he could be seen playing the course accompanied by one of his lawyers, Lindsey Halligan.

At the same time it emerged that his legal team will lodge a motion to immediately dismiss the case against him.

'We will take the indictment. We will dissect it,' Trump's attorney Joe Tacopina told CNN on Sunday morning.

'The team will look at every, every potential issue that we will be able to challenge, and we will challenge.

'And of course, I very much anticipate a motion to dismiss coming because there's no law that fits this.'

Taken together they mark the latest twists in a fast running story that exploded into life on Thursday when it emerged that a Manhattan jury voted to indict the former president.