Posted on 08/05/2023 6:26:06 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Trump Special Counsel Jack Smith filed for an emergency protective order on Friday night after getting spooked by a social media post. The former president posted an allegedly threatening statement on Truth Social and Smith asked for protection.
Trump posted on Truth Social Friday night the following statement: ‘IF YOU GO AFTER ME, I’M COMING AFTER YOU’ That was the entire post. One statement in all caps. Smith entered it into evidence Friday night shortly after Trump posted it. This is an indication that Smith’s team is actively monitoring Trump’s social media posts. They struck gold with what Smith considers a threat to himself, though Trump didn’t name any names.
Smith alleges the post is a threat to potential witnesses while Team Trump claims Smith is attacking political speech used by Trump. Trump faces allegations of trying to intimidate witnesses. Defendants are provided with evidence against them (discovery) but they cannot publicize it.
‘If the defendant were to begin issuing public posts using details – or, for example, grand jury transcripts – obtained in discovery here, it could have a harmful chilling effect on witnesses or adversely affect the fair administration of justice in this case,’ Smith wrote.
Smith said the proposed protective order was not ‘overly restrictive,’ noting that it would still enable Trump to use discovery materials in his defense.
‘All the proposed order seeks to prevent is the improper dissemination or use of discovery materials, including to the public,’ Smith wrote.
‘Such a restriction is particularly important in this case because the defendant has previously issued public statements on social media regarding witnesses, judges, attorneys and others associated with legal matters pending against him.
‘And in recent days, regarding this case, the defendant has issued multiple posts – either specifically or by implication – including the following, which the defendant posted just hours ago.’
Smith then included a screenshot of the Truth Social post.
Trump had to have known that Smith would pounce on that post. Smith is determined to show that Trump is intimidating potential witnesses in his case against Trump. He is doing everything he can to toss Trump into jail and prevent him from running against Joe Biden in 2024. Democrats are afraid that Biden is such a weak candidate that in order to keep him in office, Trump must be jailed. This is truly uncharted territory in presidential elections.
The reason Smith brought up the subject of discovery in his request for an emergency protective order is that Smith fears Trump using discovery material against him. Thursday, the judge in his case reminded Trump that it is a crime to intimidate a juror, bribe anyone, or obstruct justice. He responded in the affirmative when asked if he understood what the judge told him. Then, the next day Trump posted that statement.
Trump deliberately plays into the hands of Smith. I say deliberately because Trump is using the indictments as fundraising tools. These court cases against him are costing millions of dollars in legal defense fees. Trump has maneuvered the system so that he uses campaign donations to pay his legal bills. Little old ladies are sending in money to Trump for his re-election and he’s using their money to pay legal bills. It’s a grift, legal or not.
In another Friday post on Truth Social, Trump called on the Supreme Court to intervene in his prosecution. He admits he can’t pay his legal bills and campaign as he needs to do at the same time. This, of course, is exactly what Smith and his ilk set out to do – drain his bank account, cripple his ability to campaign, and then imprison him to get him out of the way.
In a post on this Truth Social platform, Trump implied that President Joe Biden along with Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and Attorney General Merrick Garland have brought “a barrage of weak lawsuits” against him, which require a huge amount of time and money to fight in court.
“Resources that would have gone into Ads and Rallies, will now have to be spent fighting these Radical Left Thugs in numerous courts throughout the Country,” he wrote.
Trump repeated his claim that the legal troubles he brought upon himself amount to “election interference” on the part of Biden’s allies.
“The Supreme Court must intercede,” he added.
Trump went after Smith as he spoke during his campaign rally in Alabama on Friday. The Truth Social post was made before he spoke at the rally.
Trump: Deranged Jack Smith. Doesn’t he look deranged? You’ve seen the pictures with the purple robe. He’s a deranged human being. This guy is a lost soul. Bad guy. He’s a deranged sick person pic.twitter.com/06mF1tJ7PE
— Acyn (@Acyn) August 5, 2023
Lawyers for Trump and his co-defendant Walt Nauta didn’t object to the emergency protective order. They have not yet responded to Smith’s request.
Something that struck me is that the legacy media and reporters are so quick to call Jack Smith a badass, a tough guy, someone who isn’t afraid of anyone. Norah O’Donnell slobbered all over herself in admiration of Smith’s physical fitness and his aggressive behavior pattern.
“I want to spend a moment on Jack Smith because he is essentially who Donald Trump is up against. And multiple of these indictments – the two, of course, the classified documents and January 6 the one, they’re sitting across from each other inside this courtroom,” O’Donnell said. “Jack Smith is somebody who has run and has competed in over 100 triathlons. He was reportedly at one point hit when he was on his bike by a truck and 10 weeks later, he ran another triathlon.”
She continued, “This is a man of a lot of grit and a lot of determination. And even what we have seen in these indictments is just a sliver of what they know and what his prosecutorial team knows, right?”
“His aggressive approach to his personal health and exercise correlates to how he approaches his persecution and his strategy,” CBS News correspondent Robert Costa added.
Tough guy wanted to look concerned about his personal safety and used a social media post to gin up support. Trump brings most of this stuff on himself, that is true. However, Smith and other Democrats are approaching over-reach territory in their pursuit of destroying Trump. They won’t rest until he is in an orange jumpsuit.
Here’s a preview of what may come next:
Free speech is one thing, but this is over the line. As a prosecutor, I'd be sorely tempted to make a motion to revoke Trump's pre-trial bond & put him in custody. Let him explain it to the judge. pic.twitter.com/qEhiXtVFnu
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) August 4, 2023
Smith’s main problem is that he opened a real can of worms.
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The democrat judge will control the narrative and limit Trump’s defense strategies.
The best strategy is delay until after November 2024, after that we need some people on juries that are willing to nullify these bogus cases.
However, after the ridiculous decision in the anti Trump civil case in New York, I’m not holding my breath on jury competency.
January 20th, 2025, 12:02pm
You’re fired.
Violence only solution
“ Intentionally interpreting everything President Trump says for evil. “
How is Trump’s statement about his ‘… coming after you’ not a threat?
I don’t see where Smith needs any protection. Maybe a thicker layer of skin... Still smarting from Lawfare Smith and Lois Lerner attack on Tea Party.
The article states:
“All the proposed order seeks to prevent is the improper dissemination or use of discovery materials, including to the public...]
Sounds like the perfect platform for every manner of process-crime allegation to be schemed, hatched and foisted upon the defendant...
Didn’t Obammy say something like if they bring a knife we bring a gun?
That seems a bit more direct.
I don’t think he waited. He attempted to get courts to look at the evidence but the courts didn’t have the integrity or guts to take on the bag of worms that corruption in our election system is. If you don’t believe that, just look at the states that are going after Trumps lawyers for trying to bring the cases before their courts. Even the Supreme Court under Roberts (who I consider to be corrupt and lacking any character or integrity) refused to hear the case brought by Texas, claiming Texas had no standing. The Constitution specifically says contests between states are heard by the Supreme Court. So as far as I am concerned, Roberts failed to uphold his Constitutional responsibility. I think The courts failed in their duty because they were afraid of a Constitutional crisis caused by a corrupted and fraudulent election, thereby actually creating a Constitutional crisis of at least half of Americans no longer believing in our Judicial system. And the other reason I think the courts didn’t do their duty, is that it seem so many are part of the deep state or democrat or Rino — and to them, obviously, orange man bad and must be removed because he threatens them and their position in our society.
“IF YOU GO AFTER ME, I’M COMING AFTER YOU”
Seems like a perfectly appropriate statement from the leading Presidential candidate, in a campaign with at least a half dozen opponents, including the most corrupt incumbent in U.S. history.
Jack, if this statement bothers you, you’re about to become totally triggered; gird your loins man-child.
Smith needs his commie ass locked up. He’s a danger to the American Republic.
I thought public trials and right to confront witnesses was in the Constitution. I guess they amended it when I wasn’t paying attention.
No, Karen, they reached that territory long ago.
My, my aren’t we a bunch of scardy cats.
HOW MUCH OF THE CRAP THAT JACK SMITH IS DISHING OUT, WOULD ...HE...BE ABLE TO STAND.
MY MONEY IS ON PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP.
Rasputin looks SCARED TO DEATH TO ME.
“Smith said the proposed protective order was not ‘overly restrictive,’ noting that it would still enable Trump to use discovery materials in his defense.”
Read it carefully. That is an amazing statement.
No, they didn’t. But they ignore it.
So in conclusion, Smith offers a tacit acknowledgment that he is “going after” Trump as he abuses his position at the weaponized DOJ.
Remember AOC cowering in a remote location Jan.6th because she imagined demonstrators really were going to abduct her and molest her? Absurd but the Dems at home eat up that kind of trash and believe it.
Dems want any excuse so they can soon say “We called out the armed troops and military vehicles around the country and this was necessary. The deaths of the Deplorables were justified in defense of democracy.”
Here's what I wrote, you quoted it yourself:
“ Intentionally interpreting everything President Trump says for evil. “
Nothing evil about going after cancer, except from the perspective of the cancer or those who profit off of the disease.
See for yourself…
https://youtu.be/ZmcmSTHGl6M
Jack Poso 🇺🇸
@JackPosobiec
From a fmr Trump admin staffer:
Over the last few weeks the Jack Smith investigation has been drastically widened.
Now dragging in mid-level and junior campaign and White House staffers.
Even thought the indictment has been handed down, some are being forced to testify in the upcoming weeks.
Why are they doing this? Because it hurts the staffers financially. The average DC attorney to handle pre-indictment grand jury testimony costs between $20-50k. That’s more than half of what most the campaign staff would have made during their entire time on campaign
The goal here is clear, chilling of the right to free speech, reducing the right of free assembly, and to scare away GOP staff from future campaigns and administrations. This is the long battle and they’re fighting to win
8:30 PM · Aug 5, 2023
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