Former President Trump’s lawyers in his hush-money case on Monday demanded a New York judge block key witnesses from testifying in Trump’s first criminal trial set to begin next month.

Trump attorney Todd Blanche moved to block testimony from Michael Cohen, Trump’s ex-fixer, and two women he paid to stay quiet about affairs they alleged with Trump: Porn actress Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal.

Trump’s reimbursements to Cohen are the thrust of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s (D) prosecution of Trump, who denies the affairs and pleaded not guilty to his 34 charges of falsifying business records.

The 47-page motion attacks the witnesses’ credibility at length, casting Cohen as a “liar” and suggesting Daniels would offer “false” and “salacious” testimony.

Trump’s lawyers also took aim at how prosecutors have described the hush money payments as a “catch-and-kill” scheme to quash negative information about Trump in advance of the 2016 presidential election.

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Prosecutors in Donald Trump’s New York hush-money criminal case asked a judge Monday to impose a gag order on the former president ahead of next month’s trial, citing a “long history of making public and inflammatory remarks” about people involved in his legal cases.

The Manhattan district attorney’s office asked for what it called a “narrowly tailored” gag order that would bar Trump from making or directing others to make public statements about potential witnesses and jurors, as well as statements meant to interfere with or harass the court’s staff, prosecution team or their families.

“Self-regulation is not a viable alternative, as defendant’s recent history makes plain,” prosecutors wrote in court papers. Trump, they said, “has a longstanding and perhaps singular history” of using social media, campaign speeches and other public statements to “attack individuals that he considers to be adversaries.”

The requested gag order would not ban Trump from commenting about the Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg.

Jury selection in the case is scheduled to begin March 25. Barring a last-minute delay, it will be the first of Trump’s four criminal cases to go to trial.

The judge, Juan Manuel Merchan, didn’t immediately rule on the prosecution’s gag order request. Trump lawyer Susan Necheles said the defense will respond in court papers later this week.

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Trump appeals $464 million judgment in New York civil fraud case

Lawyers for former President Donald Trump on Monday officially filed notice that they're appealing the $464 million civil fraud judgment against him and his company.

Trump's attorneys said in a filing that they want an appeals court to determine whether Judge Arthur Engoron “committed errors of law and/or fact, and whether he abused his discretion and/or acted in excess of his jurisdiction” when he handed down the massive judgment against Trump and his company earlier this month.

The $464 million figure includes the prejudgment interest that accrued on Engoron's more than $350 million award against Trump and the Trump Organization.

The order also bars Trump from running any New York businesses for three years.

The penalties came after a monthslong trial on New York Attorney General Letitia James' claims that Trump and top executives at his company had engaged in fraud for years by hugely overstating their assets on financial documents in order to get rates on bank loans and insurance policies that they otherwise would not have been entitled to.

The judgment was officially entered on Friday, which opened a 30-day window for Trump to appeal. If Trump wants to stay the judgment, he'll either need to post a bond for the full amount or get a judge to agree to a freeze or to accept a reduced amount. If that doesn't happen within the 30-day period, James' office will be able to start seizing his assets.

In the meantime, the award will continue to grow by $114,000 a day because of interest.

The court filing made no mention of the bond.