Trump 'does not have the right to say and do exactly what he pleases,' Judge Chutkan says, issuing gag order
Trump 'does not have the right to say and do exactly what he pleases,' Judge Chutkan says, issuing gag order
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.
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?
189For 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.
45the consequences when he breaks this order
Probably another huge influx of campaign cash.
16And the consequences when he breaks this order less than 24 hours from now?
Sneak peak from the future.
13Maybe there won't be any immediate consequences, but according to Legal Eagle, this is a bench trial. Meaning there are no jurors deciding his fate and instead you guessed it... It's the judge that Trump might piss off.
9Probably a big fine.
7Gosh
5I'm going to go with a double-serious rebuke.
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Supposedly having the trial sooner.
5"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."
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They'll issue another gag order...
3Same thought here.
This ultimately means nothing if he doesn’t face any consequences for breaking the court order.
3It's been widely reported that she will move up the trial date which is the last thing he wants since his strategy is to delay until after the election at which time, if he wins, none of this will matter. The theory is that doing so gives him less time to intimidate witnesses and officers of the courts.
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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.
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God it feels good to have somebody in authority say that.
The little brat needs to be told.
83It would feel much better if any of them had the balls to actually enforce these orders.
53He is being given a rope, it's his choice whether he hangs himself with it. You can't go straight to throwing him in prison you at least have to demonstrate ill intent.
I wouldn't worry, he will definitely violate these terms, if you gave Donald Trump a button that said do not press under any circumstances, pressing this button will result in the destruction of the universe he'd press it before you could finish reading the sign. The man has no self-control.
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2 gag orders in 2 seperate cases. He really should shut the fuck up for once
63hold on a bit. I kind of want to watch him make things worse for him.
46Lol don't worry
10That is downright un-American!
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He should, but my guess is that he's not gonna.
11Has the right to remain silent, but lacks the ability.
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I’m counting the hours until this dumbass violates that order.
56Hours? Someone's an optimist
27Optimist? I'd say pessimist.
An optimist hopes for seconds.
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That's optimistic.
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“He does not have the right to say and do exactly what he pleases. Do you agree with that?” she asked Trump attorney John Lauro, who responded: “100%.”
oooooooo someone is getting yelled at today
48This should have been from day 1.
42Until someone actually does something about it, he absolutely does.
37She 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 ;-)
30Trump will soon be telling his cult that the judge said "‘my prosecution is politically motivated".
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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.
19hello, I'm not a native english speaker and I know two distinct meaning of the word "gag" and neither of them make sense in this context. so what does "gag order" mean?
10Gag orders can forbid people from publicly discussing a case or aspects of it.
14ahh okay, thank you!
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Think of it as a "you cannot talk about something" order. So a gag is something put in a person's mouth to keep them from talking. So he is not allowed to talk about a specific subject (in this case parts of the case specifically things he has said that could be considered threatening or attempting to influence witnesses or jurors) so he has been "gaged"
And in case you are wondering how the fuck you get him to shut up. If he violates the order he can be "held in contempt of court" which means that you were legally told to do something and you didn't. It can be punished with fines and/or jail time. Which may not deter him.
10Does it include BDSM related meanings?
3To gag somebody is to cover their mouth so that it prevents speech.
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History has proven that he does. Gag orders don’t do shit to him.
4It 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.
7Hasn’t he violated every gag order put on him so far?
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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
2Synopsis: judge got fed up with him interrupting and accusing everyone.
1The fact that this guy hasn't been assassinated shows how bullshit Americans are and how they don't really stand for anything but a mockery of humanity.
Let's stand around and watch other people pretend they're doing the work and putting in the effort. They are just helping themselves to power.
-39Please do not make martyrs of the idiots.
42We 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.
17The people who would perform an assassination are also his supporters.
8This 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.
2This is the comment I'm going to reference next time somebody accuses me of "both sidesing".
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