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The
order prohibited Trump from targeting the special counsel
prosecuting his case or witnesses who might be called to testify
about his efforts to upend his election loss.
U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan imposed the gag order at the
Justice Department's request. She temporarily lifted it on Oct.
20 after Trump's lawyers appealed. She reversed that decision on
Sunday evening, according to the court's docket.
A copy of the judge's written decision reinstating the gag order
was not immediately available.
"The Corrupt Biden Administration just took away my First
Amendment Right To Free Speech," Trump said late Sunday in a
post on Truth Social. "NOT CONSTITUTIONAL!"
Trump in the past has called Special Counsel Jack Smith a
"deranged lunatic" and a "thug," among other insults. Trump is
facing four criminal cases and has made disparaging comments
about prosecutors in each of them, as well as against the New
York state attorney general who brought civil fraud charges
against him.
Trump has pleaded not guilty to charges that he plotted to
interfere unlawfully in the counting of votes and block the
congressional certification of his 2020 loss to Democrat Joe
Biden.
(Reporting by Brad Heath and Dan Whitcomb, editing by Michelle
Nichols, Diane Craft and Gerry Doyle)
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