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Former President Donald Trump’s team demanded his criminal hush money trial judge lift the gag order against him in a rambling social media post sent out Friday. Earlier in the day, Trump complained to the media that his trial would prevent him from spending the day with his wife for her birthday, but when Trump reentered the courthouse Friday afternoon, it was without a word to the press. His campaign posted on Truth Social that Trump was barred from discussing the trial — a repeated claim recently fact-checked as false — because of Judge Juan Merchan’s order. Want more breaking political new…

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