Cohen has been 'shooting his mouth off' about Trump, a former Manhattan prosecutor has said.
A judge may place Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen under a gag order for his negative comments about the ex-president, two former federal prosecutors have said.Joyce Vance and Preet Bharara were reacting to social media comments by Cohen, who is now expected to be the star witness in Trump's hush money case in New York.'Witnesses need to keep their mouths shut until they are in the courtroom,' Vance said.
The prosecution seeks to prove that before the 2016 presidential election, Trump paid, or discussed paying, two women—adult film star Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal—to not disclose his alleged affairs with them. He denies affairs with either woman.Merchan fined the former president $9,000 on Tuesday for contempt of court in relation to nine online comments about potential witnesses and others connected to the criminal case in New York.
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