Trump Is Tempting Fate on Gag Orders

[applegrove]

Trump Is Tempting Fate on Gag Orders

April 2, 2024 at 5:31 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 481 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2024/04/02/trump-is-tempting-fate-on-gag-orders/

"SNIP..........

Aaron Blake: “It’s difficult to think of a more combustible mixture than Donald Trump and a gag order. Even with Trump’s freedom on the line, that combination is smoldering again.”

“After violating gag orders on at least two and arguably three previous occasions — and after a judge this week employed a novel tactic to get him to stop — Trump is flouting his latest one. He’s doing so in a way that reinforces just how much latitude he’s been given, and just how untenable that latitude might be as his various cases proceed.”

“The faceoff is one with increasingly profound implications not just for Trump but for a country whose judicial system is tasked with holding him legally accountable but is taking a beating as judges try to figure out what to do.”

..........SNIP"

Applegrove:

I bet Trump is hoping some judge, in another one of his trials, gives him a gag order at the get go. Then he can claim one trial is bleeding into another and he is being unfairly tried.

[elleng]

1. I read recently ( @ DU)

that tmp's 'daring;' judges/the 'sustem' actually to jail him to 'see' what his base/followers DO.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218828476

[Timewas]

2. Good idea

Jail his sorry ass and then let those assholes show us their shit.Get it over with and move on, the longer this shit lasts the more he gains.

[republianmushroom]

3. Why not, he does have history going for him.

[Irish_Dem]

4. "judges try to figure out what to do."

Judges just have to do their jobs. No more, no less.
Do their jobs.

[republianmushroom]

7. Yup, all they need is the fortitude to do it.

[Irish_Dem]

8. Courage is the most important character trait of all.

You can see Churchill's quote on all my comments.

[WA-03 Democrat]

5. If only someone had acted badly in the past so that

we would have a map to follow.

It's a feature not a bug

[The Roux Comes First]

6. Please Help Me Understand Why These Already Disturbingly Limp "Gag Orders"

Are so routinely crippled by excluding the primary case participants, i.e., judges and PAs. Is there some quasi-legal reason for this in a routine use of a gag order? Even if so, it is obviously entirely inappropriate when you're faced with a certifiable psycho who probably jacks off to his fantasy of being a mob boss.