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Jack Smith RESUBMITS Bid For Gag Order On Donald Trump Over MAL Case. [1]

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Date: 2024-05-31  

Special Counsel Jack Smith has resubmitted a request to so called Judge Aileen Cannon to issue a gag order against Donald Trump in the MAL documents case. You all may remember that Donald Trump claimed that the FBI had “shoot to kill” orders from President Biden when they searched Mar-A-Lago for missing national security documents. Needless to say, Trump’s lie paints a target on the FBI agents who are a part of the MAL document case, and Jack Smith is seeking a gag order to stop Trump from further endangering the agents and any potential witnesses. Judge Cannon got pissy with Smith and threatened to sanction him because, supposedly, Smith did not confer with Trump’s lawyers first (This was NOT true).

Smith has complied with Her Pissiness and tried to confer with Trump’s lawyers, but here is what happened when Smith reached out Trump’s defense team:

The most substantive change to the filing now reads as follows: Government counsel have conferred in a good-faith effort to resolve the issues raised in the motion, but were unable to do so. Counsel for defendant Trump agreed that no further conferral was necessary and requested that the following statement be included here: “President Trump opposes the motion. As an initial matter, we do not believe that the Court or the defense should have to address the significant and complex constitutional issues presented by this motion until Pretrial Services has provided its views about whether such a condition is necessary to meet the purposes of the Bail Reform Act and how such a condition would be enforced. President Trump respectfully requests that the Court direct Pretrial Services to provide that input to the parties as soon as is practicable. On the merits, President Trump’s position is that the requested modification is a blatant violation of the First Amendment rights of President Trump and the American People, which would in effect allow President Trump’s political opponent to regulate his campaign communications to voters across the country. We seek the customary two weeks to respond to the motion, and we respectfully request that the defense opposition deadline run from the time at which the parties and the Court receive the requested information from Pretrial Services.”

And for good measure, Smith’s team did reach out to Pretrial Services before submitting this new request:

Finally, the new version also adds a footnote about attempting to get the opinion of pre-trial services officials on the gag order request. “The Government contacted the Probation Office to ascertain its position on the relief the Government seeks,” the new filing reads. “The Probation Office advised that because Trump was released on a bond that does not have pretrial supervision as a special condition, that office is not supervising him and it would be outside the scope of the office’s authority to take a position on this motion without a request from the Court.”

More BS and delay by Trump and his lawyers.

As to the rest of the new submission, it is almost VERBATIM to the original request that was rejected by Her Pissiness.

I’m betting she doesn’t rule on this new submission. If she rejects it, Smith will appeal to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, and Cannon knows this. Instead, she will continue to delay by not making a decision. It will then be up to Smith to decide when too much time has been alloted for another delay before making an appeal to the 11th Circuit.

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