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Former President Donald Trump can access mountains of sensitive evidence—with tight restrictions—but he cannot scare witnesses involved in the federal criminal case against him for his attempted 2021 coup, a federal judge ruled on Friday.
District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan said Friday that she would mostly adopt the Trump legal team’s proposal for a protective order limiting how much the former president can say about the evidence against him in the D.C. case over Trump’s efforts to overturn the election.
Chutkan said she would not subject Trump to a gag order about “non-sensitive” information because the Department of Justice didn’t make it clear why that material needed special protection.