Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey told Newsmax on Thursday that the gag orders imposed on former President Donald Trump during his various trials have "violated" the rights of the president and his supporters.
"It's time to unify this country around President Trump and his Make America Great Again, America First movement," Bailey said from the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee while appearing on "National Report." "You see that happening everywhere in Milwaukee, here at the RNC."
Bailey went on to criticize the gag orders and various legal cases brought against Trump as "lawfare," a term that refers to using laws to target an opponent. Bailey is suing the state of New York over these gag orders, which he argues were designed to prevent Trump from participating in the presidential election.
"The lawfare was poisonous to our democratic process and antithetical to who we are as an American people. … the First Amendment protects not only President Trump's right to speak out on political issues as a presidential candidate in the heat of a campaign in the most consequential presidential election in this nation's history," Bailey said.
"Listeners have a right to hear from him. And so Missourians rights are being violated by a rogue prosecutor and collusive judiciary in New York. This is the tool I have at my disposal to fight back and prevent that rogue prosecutor from hijacking a national election."
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Theodore Bunker, a Newsmax writer, has more than a decade covering news, media, and politics.
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