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Judge Chutkan- I volunteer to gag DJT, if that would help. The Village 10-18-2023 [1]

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Date: 2023-10-18

I realize that Chutkan’s gag order is more virtual than physical, but if it turns into a cloth gag or ball gag order, I am willing to assist in the fulfillment of said order.

Now this gag order is limited, but part of Chutkan’s point is, so is free speech.

This is the link to her 3 page order: ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/...

Judge Chutkan issues limited gag order for Trump in D.C. Jan. 6 case U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan said Monday she will impose a limited gag order on former president Donald Trump in advance of his election interference trial, as requested by prosecutors. The gag order, she said in a ruling issued from the bench after a hearing, will prohibit all parties from statements “publicly targeting” special counsel Jack Smith, his staff, her staff or “any other court personnel.” Statements about the families of those individuals are “absolutely prohibited as well.”... She is also barring Trump and all parties from making statements about witnesses in the case. www.washingtonpost.com/...

Trump brought all of this on himself. These reasonable restrictions are needed because of Trump’s own threatening words and actions. He is simply not used to being held accountable for his own behavior, because he has gotten away with so much for so long.

Trump reminds me of the woman who shot her boyfriend and then was surprised to be charged with murder when he died. Her reasoning? She had shot him plenty of times before and he never died. Clearly his dying now was just to spite her.

For Trump, it’s one of the first tangible consequences of his multiple brushes with the criminal justice system, in this case on four felony charges related to his effort to subvert the 2020 election. Chutkan has scheduled Trump’s trial to begin on March 4 and emphasized Monday that the date would not change. “This trial will not yield to the election cycle and we will not revisit the trial date,” Chutkan said. Complying with Chutkan’s order will require a significant shift in Trump’s public demeanor. He routinely uses his social media megaphone and rally speeches to assail his lead federal prosecutor, special counsel Jack Smith, as “deranged.” Trump also has taken to branding the lawyers working under Smith as “thugs.” Those comments, Chutkan said, risk poisoning the proceedings. Trump, who opted to campaign in Iowa rather than attend the hearing Monday, has also in recent weeks pointedly attacked several known witnesses in the case. He suggested that one of them, retired Gen. Mark Milley, would have warranted the death penalty in another era, and he repeatedly blasted another, former Attorney General Bill Barr. www.politico.com/...

But, but, but free speech?!?!?! —

Team Trump doesn’t know history, but Chutkan does.

Trump and his legal team contended that the order was an unconstitutional effort to silence the constitutionally protected speech of a candidate for office. What’s more, they insisted, Smith and his team had not presented “one shred of evidence to demonstrate…let alone enough to establish” any “clear and present danger” to the orderly administration of justice in the pending January 6 proceedings. Chutkan again wasn’t buying it: “In what kind of case do you think it would be appropriate for a criminal defendant to call the prosecutor a thug and stay on the streets?” she asked Lauro. “‘Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?’ comes to mind.” www.thenation.com/...

When you are accustomed to privilege, equal treatment feels like a punishment.

Chutkan said Trump’s status as a candidate does not change that dynamic. “The bottom line is that equal justice under law requires the equal treatment of criminal defendants; Defendant’s presidential candidacy cannot excuse statements that would otherwise intolerably jeopardize these proceedings,” she wrote. thehill.com/...

Contrary to Trump’s cries, this is a narrow ruling in terms of who it protects and who it does not.

The order specifies that it applies to all parties in the case and their counsel and also extends to others who may be directed to make public statements about the case on behalf of the parties, such as spokespeople for Trump or the Justice Department. “All interested parties in this matter, including the parties and their counsel, are prohibited from making any public statements, or directing others to make any public statements, that target (1) the Special Counsel prosecuting this case or his staff; (2) defense counsel or their staff; (3) any of this court’s staff or other supporting personnel; or (4) any reasonably foreseeable witness or the substance of their testimony,” the written order reads... Still, Chutkan wrote that Trump is still able to criticize the government generally, including the Justice Department and the Biden administration. He can also claim that his case is politically motivated or criticize the political platforms and policies of his campaign rivals, including former Vice President Mike Pence, whom he is running against, she wrote. www.cnn.com/...

Will the gag order work? Hmmmm.

x Just a little quick-hitter on Trump receiving a gag order pic.twitter.com/9eoSfKy9Ji — Trae Crowder (@traecrowder) October 16, 2023

x Wow, I just had an eye-opening interview with attorney Joe Gallina who discusses why Judge Chutkan’s gag order almost certainly means Donald will spend his nights in a jail cell.



Wait until you hear what we can collectively do to make sure he breaks it…



Link below to watch the… pic.twitter.com/o9v7btRU0v — Mary L Trump (@MaryLTrump) October 17, 2023

Need an idea for a Halloween lawn decoration?

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