Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday raged at New York Judge Juan Merchan’s threat to put him in jail over violating a gag order prohibiting him from speaking out about jurors, witnesses, and others involved in his ongoing business records case in Manhattan, accusing the judge of taking his right to free speech away from him.

“It is hard to sit back and listen to lies and false statements be made against you knowing that if you respond, even in the most modest fashion, you are told by a Corrupt and Highly Conflicted Judge that you will be PUT IN PRISON, maybe for a long period of time,” Trump posted on his Truth Social page early Wednesday.

He further said that it is a “really bad feeling to have your Constitutional Right to Free Speech, such a big part of life in our Country, so unfairly taken from you, especially when all of the sleazebags, lowlifes, and grifters that you oppose are allowed to say absolutely anything that they want.”

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