Sept. 15 (UPI) – Lawyers working with Special Counsel Jack Smith have asked the judge overseeing former President Donald Trump’s election interference trial to issue a limited gag order, citing statements they say Trump has made “to undermine confidence in and intimidate individuals – the court, the jury pool, witness and prosecutors.”
The request was revealed in a court filing unsealed Friday.
The appeal cited Trump’s false statements about the 2020 election.
“The defendant is now attempting to do the same thing in this criminal case – to undermine confidence in the criminal case – to undermine confidence in the criminal justice system and prejudice the jury pool through disparaging and inflammatory attacks,” the prosecution wrote in their court filing to Judge Tanya Chutkan.
Trump is genetically incapable of shutting up, so at last this brings us to the first ‘blink’ moment in all this: Are they willing to issue and then enforce this rather slight gag order when Trump inevitably breaks it?
Anyone else would’ve been under a much broader gag order, long ago.
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@DougHolland
Sure, that’s exactly what I suspect. See TAGS in the right hand column for more thoughts on the matter.