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Go ahead, criticize the Biden administration and assail its record.

The problem is that Walz's cheery Midwestern normalcy has an authenticity to it that's hard to assail.

But he expressed concern that Republicans would use the attack to assail Democrats, running the “danger of whipping up more political violence.”

Merchan issued Trump’s gag order on March 26, a few weeks before the start of the trial, after prosecutors raised concerns about the presumptive Republican presidential nominee’s propensity to assail people involved in his cases.

But Cohen's criminal record and history of lying - to Congress in 2017, and by his own admission, to a judge during his later criminal proceedings - provided ample ground for Mr Trump's attorneys to assail his trustworthiness.