Ex-prosecutor highlights 'pretty big red flag' in Trump's effort to 'influence the jury'

Ever since the threat of being tossed in jail for violating his gag order Donald Trump has managed to color in the lines keep his verbal salvos aimed away from the witnesses, jurors, court staff and family members of the DA and judge.

But while his fate is being decided by 12 jurors in the historic criminal hush money trial — the former president may have strayed some.

At least that's what former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara suspects could be the case.

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"As I said before, the gag order is a little bit of a sideshow that the fact that Trump has gone and sought an appeal and still wants to be able to speak in a way beyond what is permitted by the gag order while the jury is deliberating to me is a pretty big red flag," Bharara exclaimed while appearing on CNN's "The Situation Room" with Wolf Blitzer.

Following hours of sitting and waiting while a jury began deliberate, an angry Trump stepped out into he corridor to blast off against the system he believes is against him and appeared to consciously mess with the boundaries of the gag order.

"So it seems that, uh, there are a lot of witnesses, a lot of people that they could have called — that they didn't call; now they didn't call them obviously because they would have been very bad witnesses for them," he said. "But take a look at the list because of the gag order I won't go down into individual names but you have a lot of big players very big players that would have solved their problem or actually would have given us the win. We already have the win."

Though not named, he's likely referring to former Trump Organization Allen Weisselberg who is serving out a five-month sentence at Rikers Island (his second stint) after pleading guilty to two counts of lying in his testimony during Trump's civil fraud case.

The prosecution that brought the case against Trump never called Weisselberg likely concluding he would either invoke his Fifth Amendment right to remain silent or potentially lie yet again.

But Bharara argued that Trump is desperately trying to rewrite the case out of court.

"The case is done he had his lawyers say their piece and court, defended him to the best of their abilities," he said. "And speaking now — serves no purpose other than trying to influence the jury, which I think is wrong and bad."

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