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riversedge

(70,954 posts)
Mon Oct 16, 2023, 01:46 PM Oct 2023

Fed Judge Tanya Chutkan -issues gag order & "publicly blasts him in open court. "

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 Trump’s attorney, “Do you agree with that?”

Trump’s 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 wouldn’t 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 didn’t stop there, declaring that Trump’s “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 Trump’s 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, Trump’s attorney told Judge Chutkan that Trump has no choice but to attack Jack Smith because gems fighting “oppression” and “totalitarianism,” but Judge Chutkan didn’t let him get away with it, cutting off Trump’s lawyer, and telling him to “tone down” his hysterical language.

Trump’s attorney responded that Trump didn’t 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 today’s hearing by letting Trump know that that the trial date set for early March won’t 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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Fed Judge Tanya Chutkan -issues gag order & "publicly blasts him in open court. " (Original Post) riversedge Oct 2023 OP
"MR. Trump" leftieNanner Oct 2023 #1
I remember Trump had a hissyfit the first week when she did that. te he. keep going gal!! riversedge Oct 2023 #6
This quote stood out for me tinrobot Oct 2023 #2
Judge Tanya Chutkan issues a partial gag order on Donald Trump LetMyPeopleVote Oct 2023 #3
Judge Chutkan gets the job done FakeNoose Oct 2023 #4
Get 'em, Abbey. N/t Whatthe_Firetruck Oct 2023 #33
There's a very simple solution to this problem. Throw him in jail pending the outcome of his trial. LonePirate Oct 2023 #5
+1 MorbidButterflyTat Oct 2023 #7
And take away his phone! nt CaliforniaPeggy Oct 2023 #8
Fort Leavenworth should be acceptable to the Secret Service. nt eppur_se_muova Oct 2023 #19
Fort Leavenworth is the military base next to the now medium-security penitentiary JoseBalow Oct 2023 #21
Two words: "Bail Revoked" JoseBalow Oct 2023 #20
Trump is an evil dwarf character. No one has ever The_Casual_Observer Oct 2023 #9
Orange Furious is NOT going to like that. ProudMNDemocrat Oct 2023 #10
Brava!!! niyad Oct 2023 #30
Dump will mess up again in 3...2...1... Talitha Oct 2023 #11
Take the kid gloves OFF! Blue Owl Oct 2023 #12
Thank you gab13by13 Oct 2023 #13
God! I love her! That was fantastic! liberalla Oct 2023 #14
ol dead eyes Traitor ordered to STFU Cha Oct 2023 #15
AND Sanctions FROM THE BENCH! meaning... Justice matters. Oct 2023 #27
Finally! I know Justice can be Cha Oct 2023 #29
Brava! orthoclad Oct 2023 #16
This message was self-deleted by its author eggplant Oct 2023 #17
God, I wish more of our authorities and others were more like this, to push back on the unending SWBTATTReg Oct 2023 #18
and if he violates the gag order? nt Javaman Oct 2023 #22
I believe she'll do what she needs to do. ShazzieB Oct 2023 #25
warning after warning azureblue Oct 2023 #23
Nice to see the just system working as it was designed. Trump is a criminal defendant Martin68 Oct 2023 #24
Bet he starts saying stuff like intrepidity Oct 2023 #26
So when he breaks the gag order will she lock his ass up? Emile Oct 2023 #28
Take away his favorite toy..His cellphone. Just like a parent would do to any precosious 12 year old world wide wally Oct 2023 #31
Nothing precocious about that mental midget rhiannon55 Oct 2023 #32
Do they make plastic hamberder gags? Add real ketchup to make fitting easier. Hermit-The-Prog Oct 2023 #34
So has he actually stopped PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 2023 #35
Bravo! Recycle_Guru Oct 2023 #36

tinrobot

(10,980 posts)
2. This quote stood out for me
Mon Oct 16, 2023, 01:51 PM
Oct 2023
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?”


Seems to me that "stay on the streets" explicitly means "not going to jail."

She's considering jail as an option.

JoseBalow

(3,093 posts)
21. Fort Leavenworth is the military base next to the now medium-security penitentiary
Mon Oct 16, 2023, 03:53 PM
Oct 2023

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!

ProudMNDemocrat

(17,242 posts)
10. Orange Furious is NOT going to like that.
Mon Oct 16, 2023, 02:02 PM
Oct 2023

To which I say...."Go fuck yourself and that golden escalator you came down on."

Bravo, Judge Chutkan.

Talitha

(6,789 posts)
11. Dump will mess up again in 3...2...1...
Mon Oct 16, 2023, 02:09 PM
Oct 2023

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!!!

gab13by13

(22,022 posts)
13. Thank you
Mon Oct 16, 2023, 02:40 PM
Oct 2023

for posting "gag order" instead of "limited gag order." No one expected Trump be banned from speaking.

liberalla

(9,362 posts)
14. God! I love her! That was fantastic!
Mon Oct 16, 2023, 02:43 PM
Oct 2023

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 !

Justice matters.

(7,004 posts)
27. AND Sanctions FROM THE BENCH! meaning...
Mon Oct 16, 2023, 04:25 PM
Oct 2023

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)
29. Finally! I know Justice can be
Mon Oct 16, 2023, 04:36 PM
Oct 2023

Slow.. I'm Not critcizong.

Mahalo for that Distinction, Justice Matters! Sure does.

Response to riversedge (Original post)

SWBTATTReg

(22,540 posts)
18. God, I wish more of our authorities and others were more like this, to push back on the unending
Mon Oct 16, 2023, 02:50 PM
Oct 2023

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.

ShazzieB

(16,973 posts)
25. I believe she'll do what she needs to do.
Mon Oct 16, 2023, 04:21 PM
Oct 2023

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)
23. warning after warning
Mon Oct 16, 2023, 04:08 PM
Oct 2023

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)
24. Nice to see the just system working as it was designed. Trump is a criminal defendant
Mon Oct 16, 2023, 04:14 PM
Oct 2023

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)
26. Bet he starts saying stuff like
Mon Oct 16, 2023, 04:22 PM
Oct 2023

"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?

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,985 posts)
35. So has he actually stopped
Mon Oct 16, 2023, 11:06 PM
Oct 2023

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.

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