DEVELOPING: Manhattan Judge May Impose GAG Order on Donald Trump Monday

Reports indicate that Donald Trump’s legal team is preparing for a possible GAG order from a Manhattan judge Monday.

The order to silence President Trump from talking about his expected Tuesday arrest may include a penalty of 30 days in prison or $1,000 fine, per the Daily Mail.

JUST IN: NY judge reportedly issuing gag order on Trump, threatening 30 days in jail.https://t.co/iDWG5agfVV

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) April 2, 2023

A source reportedly said that Trump’s legal team is “considering hiring a First Amendment lawyer” to face the GAG order.

“The Trump legal team now thinks that the Manhattan judge will take the unprecedented step of silencing the presidential frontrunner with an unconstitutional gag order tomorrow,” a source reportedly said.

If the judge indeed places a GAG order on President Trump, it enflames the already unprecedented move to indict a former U.S. president on criminal charges.

Mainstream media outlets have fiercely pushed the narrative that Trump will surrender Tuesday.

AP:

He will be formally arrested and arraigned next Tuesday in his hush money case, court officials said — an announcement promising the historic scene of a former U.S. commander in chief forced to stand before a judge. https://t.co/hlz41hIStZ

— The Associated Press (@AP) March 31, 2023

NBC News:

Trump is expected to surrender to the Manhattan DA’s office early next week, his attorney tells @NBCNews. https://t.co/plubLhFKK0

— NBC News (@NBCNews) March 30, 2023

ABC News:

BREAKING: Former Pres. Trump is expected to surrender in New York early next week, sources familiar with the matter told @ABC News.@ABCNewsLive has continuing coverage. https://t.co/RgNvGH5IiJ https://t.co/iX41G9yEg9

— ABC News (@ABC) March 30, 2023

The Daily Mail reported:

Breaking the gag order could trigger a fine of $1000 and a prison sentence of as much as 30 days, under New York law.

On Sunday morning, Trump’s campaign announced that the former president would make a speech at his Mar-a-Lago home on Tuesday evening after returning from New York.

That could now be in doubt.

But it did not change his Sunday schedule. He headed to his West Palm Beach golf club where he could be seen playing the course accompanied by one of his lawyers, Lindsey Halligan.

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At the same time it emerged that his legal team will lodge a motion to immediately dismiss the case against him.

‘We will take the indictment. We will dissect it,’ Trump’s attorney Joe Tacopina told CNN on Sunday morning.

‘The team will look at every, every potential issue that we will be able to challenge, and we will challenge.

‘And of course, I very much anticipate a motion to dismiss coming because there’s no law that fits this.’

This story is developing.

We’ll have further updates as they become available.