Posted on 06/10/2024 7:53:37 AM PDT by Red Badger
British MSNBC contributor Katty Kay on Monday pondered why former President Donald Trump has the right to speak openly about the Democrat-led prosecutions he has faced.
Trump has consistently spoken out about the cases against him, characterizing them as “election interference” and a “sham.” Kay on “Morning Joe” questioned MSNBC legal analyst Barbara McQuade about why Trump is able to make these remarks and what dangers this ability may pose.
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“Somebody actually just last week from the U.K. was asking me, ‘how is it that Donald Trump can stand outside the courtroom and say the system was rigged, this was a sham trial, it was a corrupt judge?’ … What he was suggesting is that in the U.K., you wouldn’t be allowed to say that because it’s a danger, there … to the system itself, that it is a form of incitement to violence, but I guess here it’s a free speech issue. We’ve also seen the former president say that there was this huge raid in Mar-a-Lago and that they came in kind of guns blazing as it were, suggesting that, again, that’s the way that they went into Mar-a-Lago was exactly as they should have gone into Mar-a-Lago. The FBI. What is the danger of when he says things like that? And why is he allowed to say things like that?” Kay asked.
Trump is still under a gag order, imposed by Judge Juan Merchan in his Manhattan trial in the case brought by Democratic District Attorney Alvin Bragg where a jury found him guilty. The order prevents the former president from making public statements about witnesses, prosecutors other than the district attorney, court staff and jurors, as well as family members of the staff, district attorney or judge.
“Well first, let’s talk about why he’s allowed to say things like that. I believe he is someone, like others, who actually exploits our First Amendment to free speech,” McQuade said. “He knows where the lines are. He goes right up to them. Sometimes he tiptoes over them. But mostly, he includes a few throwaway lines to try to keep within the boundaries. Here in the United States, we have a cherished First Amendment right to free speech, even ugly speech, even sometimes dangerous speech. And the Supreme Court has placed the bar on what becomes criminal or prohibited speech really quite high,” McQuade answered.
“The court … held that speech may only be prohibited in that dangerous situation where there is an intent to cause imminent lawless action and a likelihood of causing that result,” McQuade added. “Now, I think there’s an argument that that bar was crossed on January 6th. But when Donald Trump says these things at the courthouse, it may be planting ideas in people’s minds, but it’s probably not rising to that level of imminent lawless action. But what does it do? What is the outcome of that? It does have an effect, as you mentioned, especially, let’s take that example of Mar-a-Lago. Donald Trump falsely claimed not only that the FBI came in with guns blazing but they planted false evidence in his home … When these things are said, it may be that many people roll their eyes, some people may believe it, but there are people out there who will take that as a call to action. And we know that based on past experiences. So it is incredibly reckless simply to utter these phrases.”
An MSNBC panel in May burst into laughter about Trump’s inability to conduct a typical reelection campaign because of the gag order hindering his speech, linking the order to the former president’s upcoming debate with President Joe Biden where microphones will be shut off during the other candidate’s speaking time.
“Donald Trump does have some experience with having his mic cut off. Which is he’s been sitting in court and wanting very badly to respond to everything with his mic cut off,” NBC News senior national politics reporter Jonathan Allen said, prompting laughter from his fellow panelists. “So it’ll be interesting to see if he’s able to do that in a debate. But he has definitely had his mouth shut over the course of the last several weeks.”
A Presidential candidate should be able to speak with the broadest latitude society can allow.
Every person should always be able to proclaim innocence and prosecutorial abuse.
In the USA, in a criminal prosecution, the government has both the duty and the responsibility to prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt in a public trial.
It continues to be my firm and honestly held belief that moneys paid for a lawyer’s time & skill and as consideration for a non-disclosure legal agreement could be considered by a reasonable lay person as legal expenses.
originally David Horowitz
Should MLK Jr. have remained stuck to preaching inside of a church?
“Updated December 20, 2020”
https://news.yahoo.com/trump-promises-wild-protests-washington-165055313.html
The term “wild” as uttered by Trump was publicly known across the nation over two weeks before January 6th, 2021 according to leftist Business Insider & Yahoo.
“Several pro-Trump Republicans, however, have said they plan to disrupt the formal process, with Representative-elect Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia tweeting on Saturday: “On January 6th...I will OBJECT and REJECT the fraudulent electoral votes from several states across the country.’
—Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) December 19, 2020”
Trump promises ‘wild’ protest in DC on Jan. 6, the day Congress to count electoral votes
Published December 19, 2020
Like so many female Leftists, she is afflicted with Man Face Syndrome.
Well, Britain is a special case.
The Vikings took all the good looking ones long ago............
And, lately, leftist politicians have said VERY inflammatory things. What's your comment on that Katty? If we ALL were not allowed to say things on threat of severe punishment, I could understand that. My MAJOR problem is that the other side seems to be able to say just about anything they want to and NOTHING happens. In my world, that's not going to fly.
EVIL people view Constitutional rights as a barrier and those who assert them as people to be stamped out (BHO).
Have you ever been to Russia? You have more freedoms there now than in the current USA.
Heck, I lived in Saudi Arabia for 10 years and had more freedom than we have in the US now. Thanks to Democrats, common freedoms are about to become uncommon.
She mispronounced "exercises".
Note to UK moron—we answered that question, and others like it, in 1776. Look to your own sewer of a country before venturing beyond.
It’s patently obvious that we are in a Communist coup, which of course started the day Trump was sworn in.
Norm Eisen, the ringleader of the lawfare would know about that. His parents are from Prague, and it was their buddies who took down Jan Masaryk after the war, and turned Czechoslovakia over to the Soviets.
It’s an old script.
I’d like to know how the media is allowed to spread lies every day?
What is being done to Trump is so egregious that even his most mentally marginal supporters fully expect the court system to put an end to it.
I would have asked her, what gives you the right to even ask that question?
Great Britain is lost. The left controls everything worth controlling, and the poor saps who actually work for a living seem to be unaware the small amounts of freedom they have left will soon disappear. The Britain of the Magna Charta is circling the drain.
The Magna Carta solved nothing.
King John ignored it as soo as they rode out of sight.
There has never been another king of England named John..............
Totalitarian witch...
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