Expanded gag order lays down the law as Trump returns to the campaign trail

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : Once his hush money trial starts in New York in less than two weeks, Trump will be required to be in attendance four days a week when the court sits, which will seriously complicate his opportunities to get out and campaign at a time when President Joe Biden is amping up the pace of his reelection bid.
46% : The revised order leaves room still for Trump to let off steam at Merchan - and it's almost certain he will as he heads back out onto the campaign trial in the coming weeks, with stops in Michigan and Wisconsin on Tuesday.
39% : On Monday night, Trump posted a $175 million bond to stave off any action against the property empire that made his name - until at least September.
39% : Trump's targeting of Merchan's daughter, who did work for Democratic campaigns, and other court officials is part of his attempt to convince his supporters that the legal system is so corrupt that he cannot get a fair trial -- even though the charges against him in his various cases have emerged from grand juries and legal procedures and he has been given every attempt to mount a defense.
38% : The situation is especially troubling because Trump has a proven ability to incite violence with his rhetoric, which was on display when a mob of his supporters attacked the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.
37% : On a deadline day last week for Trump to post a near half-billion-dollar bond, an appeals court reduced the value of the requirement and gave him 10 days - until this Thursday - to pay up.
36% : In this case, and three others in which he faces criminal charges, the ex-president is also seeking to deepen his campaign narrative that is also his primary legal defense -- that he's a victim of political persecution.
32% : Trump now hits two battleground states on Tuesday with his bond in the civil fraud case paid ahead of the deadline.
31% : Ironically, Trump was able to find an insurance firm to back the bond only after the court system, which he often claims is corrupt and biased against him, gave him a break.
28% : Trump is the majority shareholder and his net worth fell by more than $1 billion Monday as a result.
24% : What will the judge do if Trump defies the order?
23% : And it may test the willingness of Merchan to constrain Trump and to stop his courtroom from being turned into a de-facto political platform for the former president.
22% : A New York judge just joined the interminable list of his judicial colleagues, government officials and campaign staff who've all tried to do the impossible: rein in Donald Trump.
22% : Judge Juan Merchan late Monday expanded a gag order on the former president ahead of his hush money trial, which begins in less than two weeks, following searing social media attacks by Trump against the case, prosecutors, the legal system and even the judge's daughter.
20% : But Pollock added: "President Trump is not every other defendant."For all the ex-president's claims that he is being targeted by Democrats, his capacity to escape serious consequences for his incessant attacks on prosecutors and judges shows that he is enjoying dispensations that no other defendant would get.Trump's goal is clear here.
9% : Trump has already infuriated several judges in other settings, notably Judge Arthur Engoron, who presided over his civil fraud trial and beseeched Trump's attorneys to keep their unruly client under control.

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