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One legal expert says a surprising person should want Judge Juan Merchan to lift his gag order against the newly convicted former President Donald Trump. Elliot Williams, former Deputy Assistant Attorney General, appeared on CNN’s “The Situation Room” to argue Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg should not challenge Trump’s new demand to have his gag order lifted. “If I were the prosecution here, why not throw this out,” he said. “It’s almost in their interests to have the gag order lifted because you can almost assume that this defendant [Trump] is going to keep speaking out in a manner t…

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