Lawyer who stood with former president when he claimed he was not allowed to testify should be questioned by judge, says attorney
The judge in Donald Trump's hush money trial should query Trump's lawyer after he seemingly agreed a gag order prevented the former president from testifying, an attorney has said, claiming 'a serious ethical violation' may have been committed.Lawyer Todd Blanche stood beside Trump and nodded his head as Trump turned to him for advice while making his claim at a news conference.
He said Blanche would have had to have made his comments to the judge to be sanctioned.'Lawyers can be sanctioned for knowingly making frivolous arguments to the court, they can't be sanctioned for making frivolous legal claims in public. Trump was trying to be clever by claiming that the gag order, which prevents him from making public comments about witnesses, would effectively bar him from testifying in court.''That claim is, of course, not true, as the judge clarified.
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