NY appeals court rejects Trump's request to lift Judge Merchan's gag order despite end of trial



A New York appeals court on Thursday rejected a motion from Donald Trump's legal team to remove the remainder of Manhattan Judge Juan Merchan's gag order against the former president.

Trump's attorneys have made repeated requests to have the restrictive order lifted, claiming that it has muzzled the Republican presidential candidate amid an ongoing election campaign.

'Continued to pose a significant and imminent threat.'

When initially instituted, Merchan's gag order prohibited Trump from making public remarks about anyone involved in the New York criminal trial or their family members.

In May, the New York City panel of jurors found Trump guilty on all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records — charges filed by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D).

Following the verdict, Merchan partially lifted the gag order in late June, freeing Trump to discuss any of the witnesses in the case publicly but still prohibiting him from talking about staff or family members.

Trump was slated to face sentencing last month, but the Supreme Court's recent presidential immunity ruling prompted his attorneys to file a motion to overturn the jury's conviction. Trump's legal team has argued that some of the evidence used by the prosecution to secure the guilty verdict constituted official acts during his presidency.

In response to the motion, Merchan agreed to postpone sentencing while he reviews whether the Supreme Court's determination — which found that presidents have absolute immunity for actions within their "conclusive and preclusive constitutional authority" and presumptive immunity for all official acts — would impact the New York case.

Merchan stated that he would make a determination by September 6 and that sentencing could be delayed until September 18. Trump is facing a maximum of four years in prison. The New York case was one of four criminal indictments filed against the former president.

On Thursday, a New York appeals court ruled on Trump's request to remove the rest of Merchan's gag order. It denied the motion, stating that the end of the trial did not constitute "a change in circumstances” and that "fair administration of justice necessarily includes sentencing."

The court claimed that lifting the gag order against Trump, who recently survived an assassination attempt, would “pose a significant and imminent threat,” citing alleged threats made against the DA office’s staff after the verdict was read. No reports claim that any staff have been harmed stemming from the alleged intimidation attempts.

The appeals court wrote, "Contrary to petitioner's contentions, the People's evidentiary submissions in opposition to his motion in Supreme Court demonstrate that threats received by District Attorney staff after the jury verdict continued to pose a significant and imminent threat."

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Is the FBI BLACKMAILING whistleblower doctor who exposed Texas Children's Hospital for performing illegal gender modification procedures on minors?



When Eithan Haim became a doctor, he took the Hippocratic Oath very seriously. That unwavering commitment to ethics, however, landed him in hot water when he exposed Texas Children's Hospital for secretly continuing gender modification procedures on minors following Gov. Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton’s decree that such procedures would be considered child abuse.

Not only does Dr. Haim now face four indictments related to violating HIPAA, but the FBI is now targeting him for being a whistleblower.

“I read that the feds leaked your identity as the whistleblower initially to trans activists who began ... defaming you and threatening you online. Is that true?” asks Sara Gonzales.

“We have a very, very high degree of suspicion that that is the case,” Dr. Haim confirms, “and the reason is because [the FBI] showed up to my home on June 23, 2023,” and “about a week later, I started getting reviews on these doctor websites — WebMD, vitals.com, Google — that were accusing me crimes like mutilating patients, sexual abuse, all this crazy stuff.”

The specific language used in the online reviews struck Dr. Haim as odd because as the chief resident at that time, he was mostly focused on performing surgeries rather than talking with patients.

Then he started putting two and two together.

“I was the anonymous source also in a story that was released by Christopher Rufo on June 21 — completely separate from the whistleblowing story a month before — and he just wanted some of my perspectives on the transgender thing,” Haim explains.

Well, the story blew up — so much so that even Elon Musk and J.K. Rowling retweeted it. Dr. Haim should have been safe from the woke mob, however, considering he was an anonymous source.

Haim then noticed something peculiar: The people leaving nasty, accusatory reviews were using “the same exact language from [Rufo’s] article.”

“We hired a bunch of ex-Navy SEALs who were tech guys, and we subpoenaed WebMD, and we got the IP address. It was all the same IP address — every single one,” Haim tells Sara, whose jaw is on the floor.

“Then we got these Navy SEAL guys to localize it to one specific address, which we're currently working on delineating further, but there are certain roadblocks in the way that might indicate it is coming from a certain building that has special security,” he explains.

“This was all an inside job. These reviews came from the inside,” says Sara, asking whether there were “any other aggressive tactics” used against him.

“The most aggressive tactic is charging me with four federal felonies and trying to put me in prison for 10 years for charges that are as disconnected from reality as the interventions they're trying to cover up,” is Haim’s answer.

To hear the rest of the story, check out the clip below.


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Whistleblower who exposed Texas Children's Hospital for performing illegal gender modification procedures on minors SPEAKS OUT



Anyone who dares speak out against radical leftist ideology paints a giant red target on his or her back. Nobody knows this better than Dr. Eithan Haim who’s been indicted on four counts for violating HIPAA when he exposed Texas Children's Hospital for secretly continuing gender modification procedures on minors after Gov. Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton passed a law dictating that such procedures would be considered child abuse.

“In May of 2023, Dr. Haim provided journalist Christopher Rufo with documents showing that Texas Children's was lying to the public about the existence of its transgender medicine program, including documents that had redacted ... patients’ names and identifying information, to protect himself not only from violating HIPAA but of course to protect the privacy of minors,” reports Sara Gonzales.

“The very next month, just mere hours before Dr. Haim's graduation from surgical residency, he was informed by federal agents from the Department of Health and Human Services that he was under federal investigation by the DOJ.”

“Earlier this month, Haim was indicted on four felony charges related to obtaining personal information, including patients’ names, treatment codes, and the attending physician from Texas Children's Hospital's electronic system without authorization. The feds allege he obtained this information under false pretenses and with intent to cause malicious harm to the hospital, and if convicted, Dr. Haim faces up to 10 years in prison and a fine of $250,000.”

Today, Dr. Haim joins Sara to share the details of the story.

“We have to do everything we can to beat these charges. We're going to win because if we don't, what happens is the door closes permanently for whistleblowers in health care,” says Dr. Haim.

“It just seems like the entire medical field has just veered off the tracks,” says Sara.

“It really has to do with the censorship that's been going on over the last few years. With COVID you had the complete transformation of the medical community,” where there once was “evidence-based medicine” and “rigorous debate in academic programs across the country,” Dr. Haim explained. “But after COVID, people became programmed to follow the ‘science’ ... which just means abiding by an ideology and submitting to censorship.”

According to Dr. Haim, this radical shift in the medical field is what allowed “transgender ideology ... to proliferate.”

And now we have doctors — people who swore under Hippocratic oath to “do no harm” — giving "confused adolescent children [and] pre-adolescent children cancer drugs, hormones, and radical surgeries to send them on a road where they're chasing a horizon that they're never going to be able to reach and turning them into chronic medical patients for the rest of their lives.”

“Doctors forgot that medicine is driven by human dignity,” Haim says. “It was that morality that had made American medicine the greatest in the world, but we forgot about that when we forgot about what human dignity is.”

To hear more of the interview, watch the clip below, and to learn how you can support Dr. Haim in his upcoming trial, visit https://www.givesendgo.com/texas_whistleblower.


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The Ghost Of Wisconsin’s Unconstitutional John Doe Investigation Haunts Trump Trials

Several conservatives in Wisconsin went through years of hell during the Badger State’s star chamber aimed at taking down Gov. Scott Walker.

Trump’s long list of legal entanglements is about far more than just keeping him out of the White House



Monday marked the bond deadline for Trump’s $454 million civil business fraud judgment, but right before the sand in the hourglass ran out, Trump won an appeal to have the bond reduced to $175 million, which he said he’d gladly pay in cash.

While this is certainly good news for the former president, he’s still entangled in numerous other lawsuits.

“I feel like I need a flowchart at this point of all of the different cases against Donald Trump,” sighs Sara Gonzales. “They have literally weaponized every single judicial branch system that they can to try to throw their political opponent in jail.”

According to Kyle Rittenhouse, the reason for the never-ending list of Trump trials is because “they’re scared.”

“They're just like, ‘No, no, no – we don't need Trump to come in and fix what we messed up already,” he tells Sara.

Sara agrees, adding, “That's what you have to do when you can't run on your own policy.”

“What is there? Higher gas prices, higher grocery bills – higher everything; botched withdrawal in Afghanistan, allowing over ten million unvetted strangers into the interior of the country. What do you run on other than ‘orange man bad’ at this point?” she asks.

“It's not only designed to break him ... but also, it’s an intimidation tactic to stop anyone else from running for office,” says Blaze contributor Matthew Marsden.

But there’s yet another reason they’re targeting him – and it’s perhaps the most sinister of all.

Nobody has articulated it better than Trump himself.

“In the end, they're not coming after me. They're coming after you — and I'm just standing in their way," he said last year, following the announcement of the seven indictments related to his alleged mishandling of classified documents.

“I’m sure you can speak to that, Kyle,” says Sara.

“Absolutely ... If they're willing to make up all these lies and put a former sitting president on trial, what are these Soros-funded DAs going to do to everyday people like me or you? They're going to come after us,” says Kyle.

To hear more of the conversation, watch the clip below.


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Media: How Nice Of Chutkan To Issue ‘Narrow’ Gag Order ‘Limited’ To Only Some Of Trump’s Speech!

See, your freedoms, and the freedoms of the candidates you wish to elect, aren't being denied -- only 'limited.'