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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1472883
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Hasn’t he already violated it?
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Posted to Trump’s Truth Social account:
I have just learned that the very Biased, Trump Hating Judge in D.C., who should have RECUSED herself due to her blatant and open loathing of your favorite President, ME, has reimposed a GAG ORDER which will put me at a disadvantage against my prosecutorial and political opponents.
This order, according to many legal scholars, is unthinkable! It illegally and unconstitutionally takes away my First Amendment Right of Free Speech, in the middle of my campaign for President, where I am leading against BOTH Parties in the Polls.
Few can believe this is happening, but I will appeal. How can they tell the leading candidate that he, and only he, is seriously restricted from campaigning in a free and open manner? It will not stand!
Which was followed by this threat:
Why didn’t Crooked Joe Biden tell his Injustice Department to file the lawsuits and Indictments against me 3 years ago, instead of right in the middle of my campaign for President? You’re setting a BAD precedent for yourself, Joe. The same can happen to you.
These Third World Biden Indictments, which should never have been filed, would have been tried and over with years ago. My SleazeBag Opponent shouldn’t be able to do this during my campaign, OR BEFORE THE ELECTION!
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Today he will violate it again. The cult loves when he resists the Biden Deep State.
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Less than 24 hrs.
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When you have your own media outlet, all news is good news.
Won’t let you threaten people: My free speech!
Let you threaten people: Sweet!
Be seen backing down to the whim of a defendant: dingdingdingding!
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I am so sick and tired of Donald Trump and his verbal spew.
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"A wise man speaks because he has something to say, a fool speaks because he has to say something."
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No judge will actually jail Trump for violating a gag order. And he’s grifting his base to pay the fines. He could give a damn if the fines go into the 6 figure territory. In both courts. Weekly. Daily. So, other than fines, what sanctions short of jail can a judge avail themselves of?
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Maybe the judge should tiptoe more softly-like this time in order to stop this.
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I thought he had already violated that gag order. Did I miss something?
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Judge Chutkan reinstated the gag order around 6:30 last night. TFG spewed his shit around 8 pm. So 90 minutes.
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why? Why wear boots that obviously don’t fit you? He’s so fake he can’t even wear his actual size!?!No wayyyy 🤣 pic.twitter.com/kBNQ0wy3qU
— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) October 29, 2023
Those boots have got to be 3 - 4 sizes too big for his feet!! Maybe he has little tiny feet and he’s embarrassed people with think he has a micro-penis, so he buys really big shoes?! (You know how they say if a man has big feet…)
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From Amanda Marcotte in Salon today on incel-ization of GOP:
There are still many in the punditry who are confused about why Christian conservatives like Johnson glommed onto Trump, a thrice-married chronic adulterer who touches the Bible like it will burn him. But, of course, it was never really about Jesus. What Trump and the men who worship him share is anger that any woman would have the right to say no: To a date, to a marriage, to having your baby. It’s why Trump has a long history of sexual assault. And it’s why men like Johnson embrace a “religion” that is hyper-focused on caging women like they’re farm animals. And why they resent gay people for their perceived sexual adventures. It’s a coalition of men who fear, often for very good reason, that their repulsive personalities exclude them from a world where sexual expression requires consent. Johnson’s now the most powerful Republican in Congress. The incel-ization of the GOP is complete.
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