Donald Trump has been gagged by yet another judge:
A judge imposed a limited gag order on former President Donald J. Trump on Monday, restricting Mr. Trump from making public statements attacking the witnesses, prosecutors or court staff involved in the federal criminal case in which he stands accused of conspiring to overturn the 2020 election.
....Trump can still attack the Biden administration or the Justice Department and say that he thinks the prosecution is politically motivated. But he cannot attack Jack Smith, the special counsel, or his staff or family, nor can he attack court staff or witnesses. He can attack Pence, except he can’t talk about Pence’s role in the events that involve this case. She did not say she was barring Trump from attacking her personally.
Needless to say, Trump called this the worst attack on democracy ever in history and said he would appeal. It won't do him any good, though. This was a fairly routine and narrowly tailored order and I doubt any appeals court would overturn it. Trump still doesn't get that the criminal court system simply works differently from the all-vengeance-all-the-time world he's used to.
so he'll just have a staffer tweet his poison
It'll be too obvious that he directed someone else to deliver his messages. When Smith files a complaint that Trump violated his gag order and the Judge questions that person, it's game over.
"Trump still doesn't get that the criminal court ..."
That is naive.
Trump's actions in the court cases are not about convincing the courts to do or not do something. It is about convincing his supporters to continue supporting him. So for them, he wants to project hat this is a very bad decision, so he appeals it, because If he didn't appeal, it would give the impression that he accepts it.
He will think of some excuse once the appeal is rejected.
Does this order prevent Trump from attacking Merrick Garland and the DOJ?
No.
Thanks. You saved me some digging.
She also didn't stop him from criticizing her, the judge.
Is any gag big enough, really?
One way or another his noise is going to get out.
And at the same time it feeds the perception from MAGA that speech is being controlled and silenced. Trump is being cancelled...again.
Trump still doesn’t get that Americans have to live within the constraints impose d by our legal and political system, and these constraints are overwhelmingly good.
Maybe he doesn't get it because many years of accumulation of a huge amount of evidence have shown him he is exempt. An outside observer might conclude that, as regards Mr. Trump, we are the ones who don't get it.
Trump still doesn’t get that Americans have to live within the constraints impose d by our legal and political system
I don't believe it's a matter of Trump's "not getting" that. Rather, Trump believes he personally isn't bound by those constraints and/or, it's in his interest to attempt to defy them.
Trump stopped going after the judge's staff in New York when he was gagged. I think he'll follow this order too and just retune his message and keep right on threatening everyone else.
He knows that once the rage-filled tweets stop, so will the money. The rubes will find someone else to fund.
I'm disappointed she didn't go further. How long are we supposed to wait until he does EXACTLY what everyone knows he will do -- violate the order, or find workarounds -- before a judge gets the message?
Workaround example: "So I'm being PERSECUTED so UNFAIRLY by these corrupt rogue Marxist judges -- you know who I mean, I can't say that person's name because they've GAGGED me, but YOU know who -- persecuted to violate my FREEDOM OF SPEECH, which means they're blocking YOUR rights -- ELECTION INTERFERENCE, pure and simple! Everyone knows it. Somehow we've got to stop it, and we will."
This is called holding him to account? He's laughing at it.
It would have been nicer if he was actually ordered to be gaged.
Question, if Orange Jesus was gaging on a KFC chicken leg one night, would Melania call for help or not?
I'm so old that I can remember when George W Bush (the Lesser) apparently started choking on a pretzel while watching teevie in the Oval Office.
His two faithful dogs ... did nothing.
It's only fair, I gag every time I see Trump.
+1
(same here, except it's the sound of that voice)