Yep, I see that now. Should’ve dug more before reposting from Boing Boing, which is a fun site but hardly a news agency.
It embedded a link to the order!
Okay, fine. By “dug more” I guess I mean “read more than the first three paragraphs.”
Has Trump won any elections since then?
I’m talking about general elections not primaries. Jo Jorgensen and Howie Hawkins won primaries.
A sitting federal judge has commented on the gag order laid on Trump by Merchan. He thinks Merchan did the right thing.
Has anyone said why both he and Engoron, explicitly ommitted themselves from the gag order? I assume that it has something to do with not wanting to issue a self-serving order, but I would think that given the number of contempt of court citations that have been given for simply being disrespectful of a judge, that issuing a warning not to threaten their daughter should be outside the realm of accepted protocol.
Narrowly speaking, yes. Wiki: Cohen was prosecuted in Federal Court and, "Pleaded guilty to eight criminal charges: five counts of tax evasion, one count of making false statements to a financial institution, one count of willfully causing an unlawful corporate contribution, and one count of making an excessive campaign contribution at the request of a candidate (Trump) for the “principal purpose of influencing [the] election”.
Trump is being prosecuted in New York State court for… false business records in a private company owned by him. It’s technically a felony, but to me it smacks of misdemeanor. To my way of thinking this is the most dubious of Trump’s court battles. So yeah, what Trump is being prosecuted for is less serious than what Cohen was jailed for.
If there’s a weightly criminial case against Trump in this matter, I say it’s at the Federal level or if it’s at the state level, it isn’t being prosecuted - Stormy allegedly encountered some hired toughs during her ordeal.
Would that he got a weekend in the pokey for contempt instead.
looks like hope hicks may be a witness in the upcoming trial.
The gag order has been expanded:
Isn’t it strange how Trump thinks everyone is someone else’s puppet?
- Biden is Obama’s puppet to the point that Trump just says Obama now instead of Biden because that’s who is really in charge (and certainly not because his brain is turning into soup).
- Judge Engoron (from the NY civil case) answers to his clerk, who is also Chuck Schumer’s girlfriend.
- Fani Willis answers to her boyfriend/co-prosecutor so they can screw Trump over and get rich at the same time.
- Judge Merchan is being controlled by his daughter, a Democrat operative.
Trump really fervently believes that all of these powerful people have someone in the background pulling the strings. I wonder why that is? I wonder what in a Moscow hotel room could have ever happened to make Trump so sure that this is how the world works. The thought really seems to follow him around everywhere he goes, like an old-school KGB agent or something.
If you have your Trump decoder ring handy, this is his way of screaming
(You get one round of hookers sent to your Moscow hotel room, and they never let you forget it)
From the last link in the thread:
So, attacking the prosecutor and judge does have a legitimate purpose?
In the abstract, I can see attacking the judge and prosecutor as first amendment protected petitioning of government officials to redress a grievance. But aren’t most gag orders of this sort broad enough to forbid attacks on the judge and prosecutor, especially when they are, as here, transparent attempts to taint the jury poll? So — is Trump getting special treatment that we should be criticizing Judge Merchan for?
Or is Trump being treated correctly, while other defendants are stripped of their first amendment right to insult judges?
Here is an example of a broader gag put on a politician defendant, upheld on appeal:
The funny thing is that we now know that if such a tape existed and if it were released, it wouldn’t have mattered one bit.
I don’t think it exists. At least not the weird parts that were rumored.
Trump admitted the event happened. Shortly after taking office, he asked the heads of the CIA and FBI if they could find evidence of a recording. If the incident didn’t happen, no reason to ask if there were tapes. Self-incrimination.
Cite? First I’ve heard of this.
James Comey said in his book that Trump asked him to investigate the pee tape to “prove” it didn’t exist. I read the book. There are various references to this in The Hill and The Washington Post, but I don’t subscribe to either of those and the sites are paywalled.
The Hill isn’t paywalled
Thanks - It really does make it look like some kind of Kompromat exists.
It always was for me. Maybe that’s changed, but they conditioned me to not bother to try their links. Thanks for letting me know, though!