Former President Donald Trump faces a gag order issued by New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan. Now, an unlikely ally has come forward to criticize the judge’s decision in the campaign finance case. The order relates to Trump’s criminal trial concerning alleged hush money payments made to adult film star Stormy Daniels in 2016. Former Watergate prosecutor Nick Akerman, on Wednesday, March 27, called the gag order against the former president “so unusual,” claiming that it “never happens.” “In over 50 years of law practice, both as a prosecutor [and] a defense lawyer, it’s not done. And …