Posted on 06/10/2024 10:18:55 AM PDT by John Semmens
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) went on NBC's Meet the Press to say that "Trump's conviction validates the American judicial system. Here we have a person of immense wealth and privilege brought down by a jury of ordinary folks. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg ran for his office on a promise to put Trump behind bars. He was elected and has delivered on that promise. This is a potent warning to all the enemies of our democracy that they will pay a price for defying the power of the people voters put in office."
Bragg urged Judge Juan Merchan to reject a motion from Trump's attorneys to lift the gag order now that the trial is over saying "the premise that it will ever be safe to allow Trump's rhetoric to continue to poison the minds of Americans is absurd. The major objective of the trial and the ensuing punishment is to save our democracy by incapacitating its greatest enemy. We will have failed to accomplish this if Trump is free to utter his opposition to everything that is good and decent from his prison cell. To protect the public from a felon's continuing predation they must lose their civil rights to vote, to speak, and to be heard."
Rep Adam Schiff (D-CA) went on CNN's State of the Union to urge Judge Merchan "to continue the gag order as part of Trump's sentence. He is a dangerous demagogue that must be silenced for the good of the country. He must not be allowed access to any outsiders while he serves his time behind bars. He must not be allowed to inflame opposition to the legitimate government. Ideally, he would be held at an undisclosed secure facility without access to any visitors for the duration of his sentence. This would allow people to get used to him not being around. That way, by the time he is released--assuming that he outlives the term of his sentence--he will have been long forgotten by the dupes he has mesmerized for the last decade."
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif) hailed the conviction of Trump, calling it "a good start. There are more trials and convictions in the queue for this domestic terrorist mastermind. But we mustn't be satisfied with taking only one scalp. He has dozens of henchmen and millions of followers. We must pursue and punish as many of these enemies as we can if we are to ensure that the threat is thoroughly eradicated. Great leaders like President Biden and Vice-President Harris must be allowed to carry out their important work without the interference of the unworthy opposition of the MAGA minions."
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