TDS ‘Not Allowed To COMMENT?’: Trump Responds To Jack Smith’s Gag Order Request

[Kathy in FL]

‘Not Allowed To COMMENT?’: Trump Responds To Jack Smith’s Gag Order Request

Former President Donald Trump slammed special counsel Jack Smith Friday for trying to secure a gag order in a post on Truth Social.

Smith requested a “narrowly-tailored” order, claiming that Trump’s comments on social media and elsewhere about the case “are intended to undermine public confidence in an institution — the judicial system — and to undermine confidence in and intimidate individuals –the Court, the jury pool, witnesses, and prosecutors,” according to ABC News. Trump pleaded not guilty to all charges during his Aug. 3 arraignment after Smith secured a four-count indictment of Trump relating to his efforts to contest the results of the 2020 election.



“Biden Prosecutor, Deranged Jack Smith, has asked the Court to limit 45th President, and leading Republican Nominee (by more than 50 points, & beating Dems!) DONALD J. TRUMP’S, PUBLIC STATEMENTS,” Trump posted on Truth Social.

“So, I’m campaigning for President against an incompetent person who has WEAPONIZED the DOJ & FBI to go after his Political Opponent, & I am not allowed to COMMENT?” Trump asked. “They Leak, Lie, & Sue, & they won’t allow me to SPEAK? How else would I explain that Jack Smith is DERANGED, or Crooked Joe is INCOMPETENT?”

Legal experts noted that much of the conduct Smith claimed was criminal in the indictment appeared to be protected by the First Amendment. Harvard University law professor Alan Dershowitz said that the indictment not only attacked the First Amendment, but also Trump’s Sixth Amendment right to counsel.

 

[Blacknarwhal]

“So, I’m campaigning for President against an incompetent person who has WEAPONIZED the DOJ & FBI to go after his Political Opponent, & I am not allowed to COMMENT?” Trump asked. “They Leak, Lie, & Sue, & they won’t allow me to SPEAK? How else would I explain that Jack Smith is DERANGED, or Crooked Joe is INCOMPETENT?”

Not that hard. People already know. So all you have to do is say, "I'm not allowed to say, but you know exactly what I'd say here about Jack Smith's mental state, or Joe Biden's competence."

 

[Housecarl]

So how far down the lane will Smith be subpoenaed by part of the Impeachment Inquiry?

 

[ssonb]

And they want to televise the trial???

 

[Sacajawea]

This farce seems doomed from inception.

 

[Dobbin]

Smith is not known previously by his legal acumen.

‘No white knight’: Jack Smith’s record rife with mistrials, overturned convictions, judicial rebukes

Special counsel Jack Smith, who has brought federal charges against former President Donald Trump, is an “overzealous” prosecutor who relies on ethically dubious tactics, including media leaks and enticing witnesses, say those who have been caught in his snare.

www.washingtontimes.com

Special counsel Jack Smith, who has brought federal charges against former President Donald Trump, is an “overzealous” prosecutor who relies on ethically dubious tactics, including media leaks and enticing witnesses, say those who have been caught in his snare.

Mr. Smith headed the Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section during the Obama administration from 2010 to 2015. He led a team of 30 prosecutors pursuing public corruption cases against major political figures.

Mr. Smith and other prosecutors — some working on the Trump case — have followed a familiar playbook. The script earned Mr. Smith a reputation as a hard-driving, intense prosecutor, but a string of mistrials and overturned convictions led to sharp rebukes from federal judges, including U.S. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.

“These are no white knights. They are very dangerous and will use any tactics to win at all costs,” said former Rep. Rick Renzi, an Arizona Republican whom Mr. Smith’s team convicted in 2013 on corruption and fraud charges.

Mr. Renzi maintained his innocence but served nearly two years in prison before Mr. Trump pardoned him in 2021. He credits a 190-page white paper that his legal team submitted to the Justice Department claiming “repeated, concealed and corrosive” misconduct by prosecutors.
He said he was shocked by the similarities between his case and the prosecution of Mr. Trump.

Interesting. A former Head Federal Attorney of Public Integrity - with apparently little or no integrity.

Fits Obama's "Remaking of America" to a T.

Ministry of Truth that deals in falsehoods.
Ministry of Plenty that deals in starvation.
Ministry of Education that ... Well you get it.

Dobbin

 

[desertvet2]

Kinda ( NOT ) Funny that...

Your accusers can say all they want about you on every channel, in every news program, every talk show etcetera, but YOU, the accused must be silent or you could skew the outcome of THEIR witch hunt against you.


AMATUERS.

 

[Dobbin]

Trump comments - and it raises his poll standing 2 percent.

Trump is arrested for violating a court gag order - and it raises his poll standing 10 percent.

Einstein's definition of insanity comes to mind.

Or otherwise known in this case as "the will of the people will not be denied."

Dobbin

 

[TheSearcher]

Good on President Trump.

 

[Wildweasel]

And they want to televise the trial???

With Trump forced to wear a ball gag for the whole trial. The networks would keep a camera on him at the time with the talking heads continuously gleefully commenting about it.