Trump Says His Gag Order Is Still in Effect: He Might Be Right

A day after being convicted of 34 felony counts, Donald Trump said a gag order still prevented him from fully defending himself outside of court.

At a New York press conference Friday, Trump said the judicially-imposed restriction wouldn’t let him make comments about Michael Cohen, his former lawyer and the prosecution’s star witness at the hush-money trial.

“I’m not allowed to use his name because of the gag order,” Trump said, though he did manage to call Cohen a “sleazeball.”

After two days of deliberation, a jury of 12 New Yorkers found Trump guilty of all 34 counts of ...