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Former President Donald Trump campaigns in Ames, Iowa, on September 9, 2023.
  • The judge overseeing Trump's fraud trial imposed a partial gag order on Trump's lawyers.
  • Judge Arthur Engoron said they made "on the record, repeated, inappropriate remarks" about his law clerk.
  • "The First Amendment right of defendants and their attorneys to comment on my staff is far and away outweighed by the need to protect them from threats and physical harm," Engoron wrote.

The judge overseeing former President Donald Trump's fraud trial in New York expanded an existing gag order to bar Trump's lawyers from commenting on confidential communications between the judge and his staff.