Judge tells Trump to be cautious about the mouthing off.

A federal judge has warned former US President Donald Trump against making “inflammatory” statements which could taint the jury pool ahead of his trial for conspiring to overturn the result of the 2020 election.

But Judge Tanya Chutkan ruled that Mr Trump can publicly share some of the non-sensitive evidence which prosecutors disclose to his legal team.

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At a 90-minute hearing in Washington DC, the judge said the historic case was proceeding as normal. “He is a criminal defendant. He is going to have restrictions like every single other defendant,” she said. “The fact that the defendant is engaged in a political campaign is not going to allow him any greater or lesser latitude than any defendant in a criminal case.”

Nor, I take it, is the fact that he’s an ex-president. He’s just another fella around here.