Jonathan Allen is a senior national politics reporter for NBC News, based in Washington.
Former President Donald Trump risks a trip to jail if he attacks witnesses in his New York hush-money trial. But his allies aren't covered by the gag order he has repeatedly violated, and they're increasingly launching the broadsides that Trump can't. On Monday, as former Trump 'fixer' Michael Cohen testified that Trump was directly involved in a scheme to kill negative stories about him during the 2016 election, Sens. JD Vance, R-Ohio, and Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala.
Merchan has found him in violation of the order 10 times, fined him and warned him, in no uncertain terms, that further transgressions could result in incarceration. That's why Trump supporters say it is crucial for his defenders to give his claims voice in the public arena.
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