Trump pulls ‘Crazy Kamala’ into gag order controversy

Former President Donald Trump dragged Vice President Kamala Harris into his latest quest to remove a gag order placed on him.

Trump tried to tie Harris to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s decision to bring a New York hush-money case against him and later wielded his subsequent conviction and gag order to keep him from campaigning. 

Trump took to social media on Friday to air his grievances against the Harris campaign, arguing that as part of the Biden administration, the vice president helped hamper his presidential bid by allegedly weaponizing the court system against him. 

“Can anybody believe that I am still under a harsh Gag Order, placed on me by a Highly Conflicted, Unelected, and Acting New York Judge, which makes it very difficult to Campaign, especially when Crazy Kamala Harris is using this Witch Hunt against me?” Trump said in a post to Truth Social.

“Every major Legal Scholar and Pundit has said that this case is a SCAM and a HOAX, and that I did nothing wrong. Story after story has been written that the Judge had no right to do what he did, that it was a political decision against the Opponent of Crooked Joe Biden and Crazy Kamala,” Trump continued. 

While Justice Juan Merchan lifted parts of the gag order in May, Trump’s legal team again appealed the restriction on July 30, requesting for it to be lifted so the former president could respond to Harris’s claim that the presidential race is a choice between a prosecutor and a “convicted felon.” A federal judge slapped down a post-conviction challenge from Trump’s legal team to remove his gag order on Thursday. 

As Trump reacted to the ruling the next day, he continued to request that “the Gag Order should be voided at once.”

“Based on the Immunity Decision just handed down by the United States Supreme Court, and for many other reasons, this case should be IMMEDIATELY terminated!” Trump said. 

Since Trump’s historic New York criminal conviction in May, Harris has seized on his conviction as fodder for her campaign.

“Before I was elected as vice president, I was a courtroom prosecutor,” Harris said in July. “In those roles, I took on perpetrators of all kinds. Predators who abused women. Fraudsters who ripped off consumers. Cheaters who broke the rules for their own gain. So hear me when I say: I know Donald Trump’s type.”