even as the former president remains under a gag order that blocks them from speaking out about witnesses, jurors, and others closely tied to the case. trump s singled out ex-attorney michael cohen, a key witness in the case, without using his name, not allowed to use his name because of the gag order but you know, he s just sleazebags everybody knows that. took me a while to find out but he was effective. he did work but he wasn t a fixture. he was a lawyer in a statement to cnn, cohen called trump s remarks a quote crazy avalanche of broken brain word manure, no presidential candidates ever been under a gag order before? i m under a gag order nasty gag order. think of it. i m the leading candidate. trump also claimed friday he wanted to testify in the trial, but suggested one of his lawyers encouraged him not to do so. but now i would have testified i wanted to testify. the theory is you never testify because as soon as you does for anybody, if it were