Criminal defendant Trump makes statements that cause violence

Special Prosecutor Jack Smith has asked Judge Tanya Chutken to issue a LIMITED gag order in the criminal case she must oversee with criminal defendant Donald Trump.

In an interview with Lawrence O'Donnell on MSNBC on September 15, 2016, Congressman Ted Lieu (D-CA) defined a particular problem.

THE problem, which MSNBC sadly edited out of recordings posted to its website, is that Donald Trump makes statements that cause violence.

However, nobody is trying to keep Trump quiet. EVERYBODY knows that would be an impossible task anyway. In the clip below, O'Donnell reads excerpts from Jack Smith's motion to clarify that point.

Criminal defendant Trump, yet running for re-election after having already once lost massively, will STILL be allowed to declare HIS INNOCENCE of the charges (in any/all of the 91 charges currently pending against him) in four different jurisdictions, even in the face of such a gag order. 

But should he be allowed to yell "FIRE" in a crowded auditorium? Or able to freely propagate what some characterize as the Trump Contagion?

I'm confident criminal defendant Trump has neither read, nor taken to heart, the Power Principles in Dacher Keltner's book/on Power Paradox, such as : The experience of power [not only corrupts, but also] destroys the skills that gained us power in the first place. Keltner, Dacher. The Power Paradox (p. 100). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. .

I'm also confident criminal defendant Trump is massively off his rocker. That's the technically accurate medical terminology, right?

Nevertheless, I also have ample confidence that when it's all said and done, our Republic will remain.

Why? Because of the steadfast exercise of our citizenship responsibilities and, that just like in 2020 and 2022, our institutions will hold firm. And they WILL hold firm as we resist Trump and PERSIST in resolutely steadfast defiance of his Fascism.

It has now been more than two and a half years since the fateful day of infamy which criminal defendant Trump instigated January 6, 2021. Did not many of us worry over what appeared to be Attorney General Merrick Garland's inaction on the matter. Yet, Garland, in due time, appointed Jack Smith to head the investigation/prosecution. Related matters have subsequently proceeded apace and with all due diligence.

I am hopeful. I am confident. We are in this together and we'll get through it together.