Special Persecutor Jack Smith has sought a “narrow” gag order against the defendant, former President Donald J. Trump, in the D.C. elections case. Smith cites in the gag order request that he is protecting the “integrity of the proceedings”. This is one of those times that one’s first response is, “Just what kind of effing clown show is this?”. Then, one remembers that we are a “late-stage Republic”, Stage Six by my count, and one sighs, “Of course.”.

Just in case you have a life and cannot devote your every second to watching your country commit to “unaliving” itself, the gag order request was filed with Judge Tanya Chutkan. The always on target Rolling Stone wrote:

U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan warned Donald Trump in August that she would not tolerate any actions that could be perceived as witness intimidation by the former president in his 2020 election meddling case. She’s now considering a motion for a partial gag-order on Trump’s public statements.
According to a Friday filing, Justice Department prosecutors are seeking “a narrow, well-defined restriction that is targeted at extrajudicial statements that present a serious and substantial danger of materially prejudicing this case.”
The proposed order would include “(a) statements regarding the identity, testimony, or credibility of prospective witnesses; and (b) statements about any party, witness, attorney, court personnel, or potential jurors that are disparaging and inflammatory, or intimidating.”
In other words, the DOJ wants a court order preventing Trump from making public statements that could intimidate witnesses or jeopardize the integrity of the case.
According to another court filing released Friday, Chutkan granted a request from the Justice Department to have a redacted version of the motion against Trump filed to the case’s public docket. In the judge’s initial decision, she wrote that prosecutors allege Trump “targeted with inflammatory public statements” individuals “who were subsequently subjected to threats and harassment,” and that their identities would be removed from the public filing.
Last month, Chutkan partially granted a protective order that restricted Trump and his legal team’s ability to share potentially sensitive evidence made available to them in the course of the trial. During the hearing announcing her ruling, Chutkan warned the former president’s attorneys that she would take “whatever measures are necessary to safeguard the integrity of these proceedings.”
​​“Even arguably ambiguous statements from parties or their counsel, if they can be reasonably interpreted to intimidate witnesses or to prejudice potential jurors, can threaten the process,” she said.

Special Persecutor Smith and his teams of lawyers and investigators wouldn’t never intimidate subjects or witnesses and will be like Chutkan, only interested in protecting the integrity of the proceedings. The Persecutor who tormented the Tea Party for the Federal Government is totally pure of heart and motive.

From the New York Times, don’t laugh:

The special counsel has asked a judge to impose “a narrowly tailored” gag order on the former president in the federal election case against him, citing his “near-daily” social media attacks on numerous people involved in the case.

Isn’t that just adorable? His “near-daily” social media attacks on his persecutors. Look, I get that not everyone is a Trump fan. I know that there are those for whom Trump’s existence is an affront to their sensibilities. I get it. But, you have to admit that this persecution is whale caca. That whole January 6 thing is whale caca that we don’t know near half the story.

This paragraph in the gag order request is particularly precious:

We ALL thought this election was more sus and sketchier than usual. We didn’t need Trump to lead us or tell us. What a bunch of maroons the Deep State owns. Oh, and incompetent and deranged:

Damn, I love Trump pic.twitter.com/ntCgYecOG5

— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) September 15, 2023

Trump is “undermining our institutions” per NBC:

The Democrats and their allies specialize in Election Interference and First Amendment violations. And, “narrowly tailored”, my Aunt Fanny:

…The order would prohibit Trump from making statements "regarding the identity, testimony, or credibility of prospective witnesses" and "statements about any party, witness, attorney, court personnel, or potential jurors that are disparaging and inflammatory, or intimidating."

— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) September 15, 2023

Donald Trump is not only fighting Smith and his Flying Monkeys, he is still fighting Adam Schiff:

From gag order requests by prosecutors to having him removed entirely from 2024.

They want Donald Trump erased from history, but they underestimated this movement. pic.twitter.com/CZ79iknfC2

— Shadow of Ezra (@ShadowofEzra) September 16, 2023

What an effing little pisher.

I am so glad (sarc) that we have people like Jack Smith, Tanya Chutkan and Adam Schiff out there protecting us from Donald Trump and his intimidating Social Media. We’ll see, Kittens, we’ll see.

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