A federal judge on Monday issued a gag order on former President Donald Trump, limiting what he can say about special counsel Jack Smith’s federal prosecution into his alleged attempt to subvert in the 2020 presidential election.
The order restricts Trump’s ability to publicly target court personnel, potential witnesses, or the special counsel and his staff. The order did not impose restrictions on disparaging comments about Washington, DC, – where the jury will take place – or certain comments about the Justice Department at large, both of which the government requested.
“This is not about whether I like the language Mr. Trump uses,” Judge Tanya Chutkan said. “This is about language that presents a danger to the administration of justice.”
“His presidential candidacy does not give him carte blanche to vilify public servants who are simply doing their jobs,” the judge added.
And the consequences when he breaks this order less than 24 hours from now?
Fucking right?! Can we just lock him up just this once? I’m sick of him dominanting the discourse. I just want universal healthcare/ basic income.
For some reason no media seem to have linked to a copy of the gag order, but prior reporting suggests that the judge’s threat if Trump violates the order is to do one thing he really doesn’t want the court to do, which is move up the trial date.
Which is a quite reasonable move.
“Dude continues with his threats? Alright, let’s get this over with. And add his threats to the pile of evidence.”
The theory is hey, if he’s going to keep trying to tamper with witnesses and jurors, were going to expedite the trial to minimize his opportunity.
Probably along with fines.
And the consequences when he breaks this order less than 24 hours from now?
Sneak peak from the future.
Peek*
Unless you can show me a stealthy mountain
Mt Rainier
Stealthiest mountain I ever seen
“oooh are ya gonna see me today? Maybe, maybe not”
Edit: misspelled
Rainier? 😅🤦🏼♂️
The irony is thick in this one.
Oops
My family is from Seattle, they would be ashamed
Lets hope for the best. Don’t they have these solitary confinement cells that are painted in pink floor to ceiling?
Probably a big fine.
Gosh
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No, this is a jury trial for the crimes of Jan 6.
The bench trial is the one for civil fraud in NY, in which Judge Arthur Engoron issued a more limited gag order.
My fault, deleted my earlier comment.
Supposedly having the trial sooner.
“That were three more violations in yesterdays speech, so we will move the trial back another three weeks. See you in court next Tuesday, Mr. Trump.”
Same thought here.
This ultimately means nothing if he doesn’t face any consequences for breaking the court order.
I think for people with a reputation for not paying bills, this kind of thing should be held as a deposit.
Just so they can’t delay paying it for years.
It’s just gone the moment the judge decides it, and he has to appeal it back
I mean, it’s an awful precent for everyone else, but for him and Rudy and Alex Jones there’s really no other way to get the cash out of them.
They’ll issue another gag order…
God it feels good to have somebody in authority say that.
The little brat needs to be told.
It would feel much better if any of them had the balls to actually enforce these orders.
Time will tell - this judge doesn’t seem to lack the guts to do so if necessary. But my understanding is that jail time is a ‘last resort’ after fines and other punishments. I’m under no delusion that Trump will be thrown in Jail in the near future.
2 gag orders in 2 seperate cases. He really should shut the fuck up for once
hold on a bit. I kind of want to watch him make things worse for him.
Lol don’t worry
That is downright un-American!
He should, but my guess is that he’s not gonna.
I’m counting the hours until this dumbass violates that order.
Hours? Someone’s an optimist
Optimist? I’d say pessimist.
An optimist hopes for seconds.
That’s optimistic.
Until someone actually does something about it, he absolutely does.
This should have been from day 1.
She added: “If the message Mr. Trump wants to express is ‘my prosecution is politically motivated,’” he can do so without using “highly charged language.”
That hurts. That would be sentences with words of four and five syllables! He will fail to pronounce them, or his followers won’t understand them. Win-Win.
I wonder what pictures his “speech writers” will draw on his cue cards for a sentence like that ;-)
I doubt Trump will be able to resist attacking Jack Smith, but I’m 100% certain he’s going to violate the rule against targeting “potential witnesses.” That’s a very, very long list of people who are targeted regularly.
History has proven that he does. Gag orders don’t do shit to him.
It all depends what the judge is willing to do about violations. If they really threaten the administration of justice, fines are probably the first step, but imprisonment is on the table though it seems unlikely to go that far. A new judge may treat these differently, or take previous gag order violations into account.
Hasn’t he violated every gag order put on him so far?
For a voter base that believes the other side is using all means including DOJ to get put down their candidate. it is going to energize even those who are on the fence to jump to the republican side
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Please do not make martyrs of the idiots.
His goal was to remove trust in any institution. We are not Russia, the proper way is to let the institutions to do their work if we want to have democracy. Assassinating him would only further the distrust and make him a martyr.
Who cares if he’s a martyr? That’s not leverage.
The majority of Americans care…at least they should. Jan 6th is nothing compared to what his cultists would do if he was assassinated.
Lol what would they do? Charge the fbi hq again?
What they’re already doing, but on a much larger scale…shooting up schools and gay night clubs.
We have an entire movement in the US that says:
- Democracy doesn’t work, because people will never be heard through the bureaucratic institutions like the DOJ…
- …and rule of law ought to be administered with a gun instead of a gavel.
I don’t think you defeat that movement by assassinating its political leader. Especially out of a belief that his crimes will never be prosecuted lawfully.
The people who would perform an assassination are also his supporters.
This site is surprisingly tolerant of advocating murder. Thought it was supposed to be the friendly alternative to reddit. Not comments in nearly every big thread pushing for whose lives to end with violence.
This is the comment I’m going to reference next time somebody accuses me of “both sidesing”.
