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According to several legal experts, should Donald Trump be convicted on any of the 34 felony counts listed in his hush money trial indictment, he could find that his sentence will be harsher than normal due to his continuing to butt heads with Judge Juan Merchan. In particular, the former president’s ongoing testing of the boundaries of the judge’s gag order could come back to haunt him if the Manhattan jury returns a guilty verdict. In interviews with Politico’s Ben Feuerherd, several former prosecutors speculated that the former president has put himself in a position where Merchan will come…

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