Judge Merchan has a 'tool' to make Trump's lawyers 'rein in their client': ex-prosecutor

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Judge Merchan has a 'tool' to make Trump's lawyers 'rein in their client': ex-prosecutor

Judge Juan Merchan, the jurist overseeing Donald Trump's criminal case in New York over an alleged hush-money cover up scheme, is hanging something over the head of the former president's attorneys, a former prosecutor said on Saturday. Legal analyst and former federal prosecutor Renato Mariotti appeared on MSNBC, where he was asked why Merchan hasn't ruled on whether Trump has violated an expanded gag order imposed upon him in the case. The or…