Prosecutors urge judge to keep gag order blocking Trump from criticising jurors

Republican presidential candidate former president Donald Trump at a campaign event in Racine, Wisconsin on Tuesday (Jeffrey Phelps/AP)

Prosecutors in Manhattan are urging the judge overseeing Donald Trump’s criminal hush money case to uphold a gag order that bars the former president from criticising jurors, court staff or members of the prosecution that convicted him.

They agreed that one provision of the gag order, which prevented Trump from attacking trial witnesses in the case, could be lifted.