Posted to Trump’s Truth Social account:
A Leaking, Crooked and Deranged Prosecutor, Jack Smith, who has a terrible record of failure, is asking a highly partisan Obama appointed Judge, Tanya Chutkan, who should recuse herself based on the horrible things she has said, to silence me, through the use of a powerful GAG ORDER, making it impossible for me to criticize those who are doing the silencing, namely Crooked Joe Biden, and his corrupt and weaponized DOJ & FBI.
They want to take away my First Amendment rights, and my ability to both campaign and defend myself. In other words, they want to cheat and interfere in the 2024 Presidential Election. Nothing like this has ever happened in our Country before. It is strictly Banana Republic kind of “stuff.”
These political Hacks and Thugs are destroying our Country. Let’s see what happens on Monday in Judge Chutkan’s courtroom. Will America survive, or not? I’ll be campaigning in the Great State of Iowa, where I am leading by 50 Points!!!
Trump is also whining about 60 Minutes.
Jack Smith has already flagged JUST THIS TYPE of Trump rhetoric in arguing for the gag order
Note this passage from Sept 15 court filing from Special Counsel =====> pic.twitter.com/nvNkjOc6VI
— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) October 16, 2023
And we are underway. Very punctual. 10am on the dot. Judge Chutkan details the proposed gag order …. And uses the phrase “gag order” … and she also mentions Jack Smith’s request for court to approve any Trump “jury surveys” .. seeking to avoid “push polls” that’d bias jurors
— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) October 16, 2023
Judge says defense has already agreed to notify court about dates and sample size of any future surveys
Judge says survey would only likely only reach a few hundred people. And jury selection would weed out anybody who got the survey… “even if it were very slanted”
— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) October 16, 2023
Judge says pretrial release conditions already prohibit intimidation and threats
Those rules apply to all parties. Including prosecutors and defense attorneys
— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) October 16, 2023
Judge shifts to defense and opens with this statement about Trump, “He does not have the right to do or say anything that he pleases”.. because he’s a criminal defendant on pretrial release
— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) October 16, 2023