Judge in Trump hush-money case asked to issue gag order on former president

The Manhattan district attorney has requested Donald Trump be subjected to a gag order (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Prosecutors in Donald Trump’s New York hush-money criminal case asked a judge Monday to impose a gag order on the former president, citing his “long history of making public and inflammatory remarks” about people involved in his legal cases.

The Manhattan district attorney’s office asked that Mr Trump be barred from making or directing others to make public statements about potential witnesses, prospective jurors and members of the prosecution team and their families other than District Attorney Alvin Bragg.