The judge in Donald Trump’s hush-money trial has extended a gag order to the court and the Manhattan district attorney’s family.

The court order comes after the former president made remarks about the judge’s daughter.

The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office asked a judge to expand the gag order. They want to prevent Donald Trump from making comments about the families of judicial officers involved in the case. Prosecutors asked Judge Juan Merchant to clarify that Trump is barred from making public statements about court family members, district attorneys and others named in the order.

“This court should immediately and expressly enjoin the defendant from making or directing others to make public statements regarding court family members, the district attorney, and all other individuals named in the order,” prosecutors said in their appeal to the judge Monday. Melchan.

The 77-year-old began posting on his social media platforms after Murchin issued a gag order prohibiting Donald Trump from talking about witnesses, jurors, prosecutors, court staff or their families. The gag order does not include District Attorney Alvin Bragg or the judge and his family.

Donald Trump claimed Momo was “compromising” and named the judge’s daughter, who works at a political consulting firm. He referred to a post on an account on the social media platform that he claimed belonged to his daughter. However, a court spokesman said the judge’s daughter had closed her account two years ago and the posts were not hers.

“The defendant knew what he was doing, and so did others. We are all aware of the defendant’s intentions because he has stated for decades that it was part of his philosophy to pursue his perceived opponents ‘as viciously and violently as possible,’” prosecutors Official wrote.

“But the suggestion that the defendants were merely engaging in political counter-speech is patently false and should be firmly rejected by this court,” prosecutors wrote. “None of the defendants’ attacks over the past week involved campaign propaganda. Instead, the defendants did nothing but preside over this criminal trial. There is no other reason to maliciously and falsely smear the court and its family.”

Trump’s lawyers oppose the gag order, which they say is too restrictive, and they may appeal Momo’s order. They argue that the current gag order does not apply to the judge or Bragg’s family.

Trump’s lawyers wrote: “The court should deny the People’s invitation to expand the gag order, which is already an unlawful prior restraint that inappropriately restricts the campaign communications of the presumptive Republican nominee and primary candidate in the 2024 presidential election. .”

They also believe that Mocha’s daughter is the target of Trump’s public criticism.

“Therefore, because the gag order expressly does not apply to the court or to family members of the District Attorney and the challenged social media posts were not intended to materially interfere with those proceedings, President Trump did not violate the gag order and was not in contempt of court behavior.” The warning is appropriate. “

Trump’s lawyers also asked that the silent review allow them to file a motion asking the judge to recuse himself from the case, which is set to begin in two weeks, based on new evidence and changing circumstances.