Of course it is. As if you care about the constitution...***

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Apr 19, 2024, 2:07 PM

Trump’s gag order also prevents him from speaking about witnesses. Reuters article conveniently left out that fact, which is example number 1 billion about how the Uniparty’s propaganda network dupes well meaning Americans into taking a steady diet of blue pills.

Notice how key witness Stephanie Clifford aka Stormy Daniels has a documentary out there which contains a large portion of content related to the State of NY vs Trump trial. Her former lawyer (Michael Avenatti has gone public with a statement that Ms. Clifford is a liar.)
Notice how key witness Michael Cohen had been going on every leftist media outlet to impugn Trump and judge as a criminal. Michael Cohen is a three time perjuror.

Yet, Trump was gagged as soon as the judge first took the stand; he was gagged further when he dared to prove the judge’s bias (Note: Judicial bias is a constitutionally defined violation of a defendant’s &/or plaintiff’s right to due process, it this is NY, so who cares?). The judge’s bias is that his daughter (Loren Merchan) is an executive officer for a Democrat digital fund raising and messaging organization; Trump bashing is one of best known fund raising tactics. This digital fund raising organization (known as “Authentic” keeps ~10% of raised funds; this is a low overhead organization, as is typical of small web-based companies. Yet, Authentic has, in the past ~ 3 years, raised ~ $93,000,000. Executive managers of Authentic get a lion’s share of the 10% fees which it retains from their fund raising success.
(*). In other words, Merchan’s daughter has already become rich as a result of her activities with Authentic, and the new State of NY vs Trump trial will be yet another financial windfall for Loren Merchan.
(*). Finally, Judge Merchan himself has made token donations to Democrat politicians; Judge Merchan himself is an elected judge who ran as a Democrat; Judge Merchan himself had been on TV in the past (~ 2016 to ~ 2020 general time range) during which he expressed his strong dislike for US presidents who communicate via social media. Trump was the first US president to extensively communicate via social media.

OK, now back to Trump’s gag order. Trump cannot publicly defend himself against three entities which are closely aligned against him in this trial. Yet, poorly informed TDS’ers are blind to how the various ‘get Trump’ trials are incredibly damaging to the American system of justice. A fair and unbiased judiciary is the single most important factor in the American democracy. This State of NY vs Trump case’s one sided gag order … designed to disadvantage Trump’s political candidacy … is yet another exclamation mark to signify the descent of America from a representative government to an autocracy.

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A huge complicating factor which destroys the fallacious intent of the ‘no one is above the law’ trope is that Team Trump is NOT arguing that he is above the law.

The Constitution itself grants special powers and privileges to presidents … past and present … that are not afforded to anyone else.

Idiots have been duped b6 their thought leaders into believing that no such special privileges should be granted to a president (or former president) because ‘all people are created equal’ or something along similar lines.

Solly Cholly, that isn’t the way that The Constitution works.

Here’s a non-Trump example: Obama took ~33,000,000 confidential records immediately before leaving the WH. Highly classified documents are believed by NARA to be amongst those 33MM documents. NARA has be3n requesting for 7+ years that Obama turn those documents over to NARA. Obama, via his actions, has 5old NARA to pound sand. Why hasn’t the DoJ issued a subpoena to obtain those documents on behalf of NARA? Obama’s defense is that Article 2 of The Constitution entitled Obama, as a then president and a now former president, to possess those documents and to take whatever measures he (the now ex-president) to safe keep those documents.

Clinton got a different courtesy. He left the presidency with possession of confidential recordings between him and various foreign leaders. DoJ sued. Case went to SCOTUS. SCOTUS ruled that Clinton had the right to keep these tapes; ‘safe keeping’ of those tapes was storage in a sock drawer, which is also entirely legal as per how Article 2 enumerates presidential (and ex-presidential) privilege.

(?). Don’t like how this law works? Too bad. That is the law. Thus, neither Obama nor Clinton were ‘above the law’ with regard to presidential documents. So please, just stop it with the false premised statement of ‘nobody is above the law’ when it comes to the privileges that Team Trump claims.

Autocracy is the state of government when arbitrary judgements are passed down from the powerful to the common people. Constitutional republics are when caref7lly articulated, situation specific laws are the standard to which powerful people are constrained to follow when ‘judging’ people who are not in a position of power. America’s trajectory from a constitutional republic to an autocracy had started slowly. That pace is picking up speed, yet most Americans are worried about band practice, vacation destination decisions, garden club get-together, etc. These well meaning Americans don’t see autocracy racing up behind them until something happens to ‘reintroduce’ them to the court system. They won’t even think about this until some activist judge dispenses an unconstitutional judgement against them.

Is a gag-order constitutional?

What statute is he charged with?

Yes, as long as they meet strict requirements.

Wouldn't "strict requirements" apply to everyone involved?***

Re: Wouldn't "strict requirements" apply to everyone involved?***

LOL. WOW.***

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Re: LOL. WOW.***

Exactly***

Oh Good Lord....

Re: Oh Good Lord....autocracy is rapidly expanding right now

Our resident constitutional and legal expert has weighed in.***

Pfft....

Re: Pfft....

Yeah, that's all extremely convincing. (eyes roll)****

Re: Yes, as long as they meet strict requirements.

Poor Trump, such an innocent victim***

Re: Is a gag-order constitutional?

Hes not forbidden to talk about the trial. He trots out

Bragg slammed/attacked/threatened Trump just to win his D.A. race.

Re: Bragg slammed/attacked/threatened Trump just to win his D.A. race.

A D.A. race isnt a criminal trial. Hope that helps.***

No ethical obligations to being a NYC DA... That's become obvious.***

Only for women who are into that.***

naw, he's just a classic Incel

Re: Is a gag-order constitutional?

No, everything about this is a miscarriage of justice.***

Gag me on a Saturday night and I will

*little fists pounding****

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