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Former President Trump has demanded that the judge in his hush money payments case remove a gag order that prevents him from speaking publicly about witnesses in the trial. Trump said his constitutional rights were being stripped away by the judge and that he could not respond to “lies” told about him in the press during his trial. “I am not allowed to speak,” Trump said in brief remarks before he entered the Manhattan courthouse on Friday. “The gag order has to come off. People are allowed to speak about me, and I have a gag order just to show you how much more unfair it is. And the conflict …

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