Donald Trump’s allies might land him in jail for contempt of court after New York Justice Juan Merchan laid down the law. The judge held the former president in criminal contempt for nine violations of a gag order prohibiting him from making public statements about witnesses and jurors in the case, but the narrowly defined order also bars Trump from directing others to make statements that could undermine the trial’s integrity, wrote former Justice Department official Anthony Coley in a new column for MSNBC. “Merchan made it clear who’s really in charge,” wrote Coley, a former director of the …