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She is not afraid of the thug Trump!! You go gal!!
BREAKING: Federal Judge Tanya Chutkan drops bombshell on indicted 2024 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, slaps him with a devastating gag order and publicly blasts him in open court.
According to CNN, Judge Chutkan declared today, Mr. Trump is a criminal defendant. He is facing four felony charges. He is under the supervision of the criminal justice system and he must follow his conditions of release. He does not have the right to say and do exactly what he pleases.
Then he asked Trumps attorney, Do you agree with that?
Trumps lawyer responded, 100%.
Then Chutkan declared, When you start to use a word like thug to describe Special Counsel Jack Smith, who is doing his job, that wouldnt be allowed by any other criminal defendant. Just because the defendant is running a political campaign does not allow him to do whatever he wants. If the message Mr. Trump wants to express is my prosecution is politically motivated, he can do so without using highly charged language.
Judge Chutkan didnt stop there, declaring that Trumps troubling posts may incite harm and violence against Special Counsel Jack Smith and his team.
Judge Chutkan specifically pointed to a Truth Social post in which the former president referred to Jack Smith as a thug, asking Trumps attorney, 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?
At this point, Trumps attorney told Judge Chutkan that Trump has no choice but to attack Jack Smith because gems fighting oppression and totalitarianism, but Judge Chutkan didnt let him get away with it, cutting off Trumps lawyer, and telling him to tone down his hysterical language.
Trumps attorney responded that Trump didnt need anymore restrictions because the prior restrictions were working, but Judge Chutkan literally laughed in his face and him that he better keep politics out of her courtroom.
To make matters even worse for Trump, Judge Chutkan ended todays hearing by letting Trump know that that the trial date set for early March wont change: This trial will not yield to the election cycle, and we will not revisit the trial date.
BRAVO, Judge Chutkan!👏👏👏
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leftieNanner
(15,267 posts)riversedge
(70,954 posts)tinrobot
(10,980 posts)Seems to me that "stay on the streets" explicitly means "not going to jail."
She's considering jail as an option.
LetMyPeopleVote
(147,275 posts)FakeNoose
(33,419 posts)Whatthe_Firetruck
(564 posts)LonePirate
(13,496 posts)MorbidButterflyTat
(1,958 posts)CaliforniaPeggy
(150,266 posts)eppur_se_muova
(36,368 posts)JoseBalow
(3,093 posts)USP Leavenworth was downgraded from a max to a medium a couple of decades ago. The prison is an old run-down shit hole of a dump, one of the worst places to do federal time. Inmates are routinely transferred there from other facilities as punishment.
Fort Leavenworth does have a military Disciplinary Barracks on base, but it is separate from the USP next door.
While I would love to see drumpf suffer there, he'd probably wind up in a more modern detention center while awaiting trial. And regardless of where he would wind up, he would surely be kept in a Special Housing Unit, segregated from the general population. Not so much for his protection, though the Secret Service would demand that, but to keep other inmates from beating classified information out of him in a shower stall.
What I REALLY want to see is him complaining about the slimy bologna sandwiches in the Fulton County Jail... I dare to dream!
JoseBalow
(3,093 posts)The_Casual_Observer
(27,742 posts)Done this kind of shit.
ProudMNDemocrat
(17,242 posts)To which I say...."Go fuck yourself and that golden escalator you came down on."
Bravo, Judge Chutkan.
niyad
(114,912 posts)Talitha
(6,789 posts)I sure hope he spouts off soon and winds up in the slammer ASAP - without internet access or media coverage. The world is SO tired of this monster!!!
Blue Owl
(51,163 posts)It's about damn time....
gab13by13
(22,022 posts)for posting "gag order" instead of "limited gag order." No one expected Trump be banned from speaking.
liberalla
(9,362 posts)Was drumpf in court to hear it himself? I hope, I hope!
I'm at work and haven't been able to follow developments. TIA !
Cha
(299,206 posts)his diarrhea mouth.. or Sanctions!
TY & Judge Chutkan!
Justice matters.
(7,004 posts)Without the need for another hearing... in that she will rule immediately upon ONE threat and escalate from there without having to call in his stupid 'lawyers'...
Cha
(299,206 posts)Slow.. I'm Not critcizong.
Mahalo for that Distinction, Justice Matters! Sure does.
orthoclad
(2,910 posts)Response to riversedge (Original post)
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SWBTATTReg
(22,540 posts)nonsense and threats that tRUMP utters almost on a daily basis.
We're all Americans, we all have the right to free speech BUT others don't have the right to willy nilly impede or destroy our free speech by threatening us.
Javaman
(62,599 posts)ShazzieB
(16,973 posts)She's limited his speech to the extent that he'll have very hard time complying, and left him just enough rope to hang himself if he doesn't.
She wasn't just asking a question when she asked Trump's lawyer, 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 was issuing a thinly veiled warning.
azureblue
(2,176 posts)And still Trump ignores his parole conditions, because he knows he can get away with it.
Enough of the warnings - just like of he was any other criminal violating probation, throw him in jail.
Martin68
(23,399 posts)charged with 4 felonies. Republicans are denying felons the vote. This judge is denying this defendant the right to slander the prosecution in public. I hope Dump tests that decision. He may very well end up behind bars, where he belongs.
intrepidity
(7,505 posts)"You know what I want to say but can't" which, of course, some of his followers will interpret in the worst way.
I wonder how the court will respond to those kinds of comments?
He'll just call Smith something like "Jack the-you-know-what" or maybe even replace "thug" with a flattering word used ironically?
Emile
(24,216 posts)world wide wally
(21,762 posts)rhiannon55
(2,679 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(34,083 posts)PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,985 posts)saying whatever he pleases? Really? Then why the fuck is he not in jail by now?
I'm so sick of the judges telling him to shut up and he immediately starts blathering some more, so they tell him not to talk like that and he continues to talk like that and once again they warn him and once again he says crap. When will it end?
Plus, of course, his keeping secret documents. Others, with one and only one secret document have spent years in jail.
Jesus F. Christ. Put him in jail already.