Posted on 04/02/2023 12:29:53 PM PDT by shadowlands1960
-Trump could be gagged by a Manhattan court on Monday ahead of hearing.
-His legal team is considering hiring a First Amendment lawyer, a source said.
-It comes as Trump prepares to fly to New York to be formally arraigned
Donald Trump's legal team is preparing for a New York judge to slap a gag order on the former president on Monday, DailyMail.com can reveal, a day before he is due to be arrested in Manhattan.
On Sunday morning, Trump's campaign announced that the former president would make a speech at his Mar-a-Lago home on Tuesday evening after returning from New York.
That could now be in doubt.
But it did not change his Sunday schedule. He headed to his West Palm Beach golf club where he could be seen playing the course accompanied by one of his lawyers, Lindsey Halligan.
At the same time it emerged that his legal team will lodge a motion to immediately dismiss the case against him.
'We will take the indictment. We will dissect it,' Trump's attorney Joe Tacopina told CNN on Sunday morning.
'The team will look at every, every potential issue that we will be able to challenge, and we will challenge.
'The Trump legal team is considering adding a First Amendment lawyer to the effort to combat this and will fight it all the way.'
Breaking the gag order could trigger a fine of $1000 and a prison sentence of as much as 30 days, under New York law.
The extraordinary move to potentially silence a candidate for president will likely enflame Trump's supporters as he prepares to fly out of his Florida home.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
There will be many supporters (millions of them) who will not be under a gad order and be more than willing to speak on his behalf.
A gag on a front running presidential candidate is simply the wrong thing to do in America. Trump should be free to speak about any subject! These son-of-a-bitches are trying their damnedest to ignite a civil war!
More election interference
I think it may be helpful for him at least for the trial. I mean is it necessary to go after the wife of the judge????? This is the first time accountability is being questioned and his focus must be on winning the trial.
looks light in the loafers....
So the Leftists want to silence Trump, but the media can talk about it all day long.
This is utter B.S.
trump should talk and talk loud....make a spectacle....
The gag order might keep Trump from campaigning, but it doesn’t stop his supporters from campaigning or talking about his case.
I smell a GAG RALLY!!
He’s going to Epstein’s cell in MCC.
And they don’t plan on him walking out.
Besides presiding over the Trump organization trial, this POS also presided over the 2022 criminal trial of Steve Bannon for fraud and money laundering. He must be permanently assigned to every case that’s somehow connected to Trump.
> I don’t think the secret service will even allow it… <
If Trump is ordered to jail, I’m guessing that the Feds would order the Secret Service to stand aside. And they will. No agent is willing to risk job and pension these days.
Perhaps the best we can hope for is an agent on watch outside of Trump’s cell.
(What a travesty it is that we are forced to discuss such things.)
It’s not that your wrong, it’s that this country’s justice system is so f*cked up.
Yeah, it's called assassination.
Trump really effed these people’s minds up. Unfortunately, he’s a paying a price for it. That’s what he gets for actually thinking a potus is elected to do a good job.
As an aside, the old ways of presidential elections are over.
There are no more massive television audiences (as there were in 2016) tuning in to watch a Biden/Trump debate.
They’ll never let 45 be heard, unfettered, by a mainstream audience again, that’s out!
So they (the Democrats) can leak the stuff damaging to trump
They did the same thing to stone.
Social media gagged a sitting President, and no one did anything. Why would this be any different. No one would do anything about it.
Nobody ever said that Alvin Bragg was smart.
Another article talking about stuff that hasn’t happened and no one knows.
Can we just wait until Tuesday?
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