[Gaffer]

.....special counsel Jack Smith's team of prosecutors, who claimed that the former president's criticism of witnesses, the judge, prosecutors, and Washington itself threatened the integrity of their case.

This is nonsense, IMO. The 'persecution and its team' have no integrity. It's a political witch hunt where the persecution is allowed to put anything it wants out there to media and demands from a lickspittle, complicit judge that he gag the defense entirely. The defendant is innocent until PROVEN guilty in a court of law - this judge and persecution have already made up their minds and judgements before trial has even started on both sides.

[Lazamataz]

A thief steals your car, and when you report it and demand the police do something about it, they prosecute you for conspiring to deprive the thief of an income.