Protection

 NY Times: In Trump Criminal Case, Manhattan D.A. Asks for Gag Order Before Trial - Lawyers for Alvin L. Bragg, the district attorney, are seeking to protect jurors and witnesses in the first criminal prosecution of a former president. By Jonah E. Bromwich, Ben Protess and William K. Rashbaum

...noted Mr. Trump’s “longstanding history of attacking witnesses, investigators, prosecutors, judges, and others involved in legal proceedings against him.”