Jack Smith Bites the Bullet!
Well, folks, Special Council Jack Smith has ask the judge for a Gag Order!
Today, Friday September 15, 2023, Special Council had a motion opened with the court to “Gag” the Defendant, Donald J. Trump. Thus motion had been filed some 10 days ago. Now, WHY it has taken 10 or so days for the judge to open this motion, I have no answer. But, apparently the defense attorneys, and Trump, have known this motion was filed. Yet, Trump has continued his ranting, raving, tweeting, and interviewing over the past 10 days since this was filed!
His request is being made in an attempt to stop Trump from “threatening”, “coercing”, “intimidating”, “defaming”, “insulting”, and basically running his mouth the way he’s been running it since January 2021 against potential jurors, court officers, prosecutors, the court, witnesses, potential witnesses, and basically anyone and everyone that’s been involved, or has the potential to be involved, in these cases against him.
I truly don’t get this man. He’s facing over 500 years in prison, millions upon millions in potential fines, and basically going from “riches to rags” with the drop of a justices gavel. And he’s violating every court order given to him like he just doesn’t care, give a damn, or …………..!
Maybe someone, like a psychiatrist, or someone can explain his actions, and attitude. I know if I was facing what he’s facing, one thing I sure wouldn’t do is get in a network tv station or radio and run my mouth about anything that has anything to do with any of my charges, or anyone associated with, or could be associated with or involved with my case.
If you recall, August 11, 2023 Judge Chutkan told Trump lawyer John Lauro during a hearing:
“I caution you and your client to take special care in your public statements about this case. I will take whatever measures are necessary to safeguard the integrity of these proceedings.”
“The fact that he’s running a political campaign has to yield to the orderly administration of justice. If that means he can’t say exactly what he wants to say about witnesses in this case, that’s how it has to be.”
“Even arguably ambiguous statements from parties or their counsel, if they can be reasonably interpreted to intimidate witnesses or to prejudice potential jurors, can threaten the process. The more a party makes inflammatory statements about this case which could taint the jury pool … the greater the urgency will be that we proceed to trial quickly.”
Now, I’m not close to being an attorney, as you know, but, if I’m a defendant and the judge tells me this, I believe I could be smart enough to keep my damn mouth shut!
BUT, not Defendant Donald J. Trump. He’s made a point to stay on his Truth Social Network and blast everyone he can with his threats and midnight rants on a nightly basis. He’s gone on every network that will allow him to and he’s ran his mouth about the charges, the prosecutors, judges, witnesses for the prosecution, and anyone else that might possibly be involved in these cases.
It’s my guess that Judge Chutkan will be calling his attorneys back into the courtroom and she may also possibly have Trump report back to the courtroom. If she has him report to the courtroom, he may get something he isn’t going to like. He may get a free room snd board at the nearest holding facility. At the least, she’s going to chew on his, and his defense council’s backside for a good while.
If he gets to leave that courtroom’s on a free man, breathing free air, he better thank his good stars. If it was you or I that has pulled this nonsense, there’s no way I’m hell we would be leaving that courthouse. We would be like the Monopoly layer that just picked the card “Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200.”
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(NOTE: some of this content was taken from POLITICO article:
Judge warns Trump: ‘Inflammatory’ statements about election case could speed trial [08/11/2023]
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/11/judge-warns-trump-speed-trial-00110870
and POLITICO article:
Jack Smith seeks gag order on Trump [09/25/2023]
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/15/jack-smith-seeks-gag-order-on-trump-00116366 )
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In other news.
There’s a multi-state push to have Trump removed from the ballot for the 2024 Presidential Election. I’m not going to get into the 14th Amendment because I wrote a post on it earlier.
Here’s the link:
Colorado, Minnesota, and several other states across America either have filed or are about to file to keep Donald J. Trump off the ballot.
Some questions need examining on this.
A. What would happen if this ended up going to the Supreme Court for a decision?
The 14th Amendment is extremely clear that no person having been involved, planned, ……….an insurrection shall never be allowed to hold public ejected office ever again. So, if this is appealed through the courts to the Supreme Court, how will they decide? We all know that 5 justices on the SCOTUS were seated by Trump!
There’s some amazing facts about Alcatraz Island, known colloquially as “The Rock.” It was once the most notorious prison in the United States. Located 1.25 miles offshore from San Francisco, the island saw Civil War prisoners in the 1860s, mob bosses in the 1930s, and much more.
Today, Alcatraz is one of the Bay Area’s most popular tourist attractions, and an on-island museum tells the story of the prison’s past.
These seven facts span the many ages of Alcatraz and reveal how it became one of the most infamous sites in American history.
The Word “Alcatraz” Means “Pelican” in Archaic Spanish
In 1775, Spanish explorer Juan Manuel de Ayala became the first European to sail into San Francisco Bay. He named the bay and its islands, including one he called “Alcatraces.” Although the island’s name was anglicized over the decades, its origin is widely believed to mean “pelican” or “strange bird.” The island was once a particular hot spot for California brown pelicans (Pelecanus occidentalis californicus), which were so plentiful in the 19th century that one French observer noted that when a group of pelicans took off in flight, it created winds like a hurricane. Although the birds’ numbers dwindled sharply due to hunting and the use of DDT over the decades, the pelican rebounded in the latter part of the 20th century, and was removed from the Endangered Species List in 2009.
Before Becoming a Prison, Alcatraz Was a Military Outpost
Although Alcatraz is known as one of America’s most infamous prisons, its first official U.S. role was as a military outpost. With California joining the U.S. in 1850 after being ceded from Mexico two years prior, and with hundreds of thousands of people flooding the state as part of the California Gold Rush, the U.S. military needed to protect San Francisco Bay. Alcatraz, along with Fort Point and Lime Point, formed a “triangle of defense” that guarded the bay’s entrance. At one point, the U.S. even installed 100 cannons on the 22-acre island, making it the most heavily armed military outpost in the Western U.S. But by the decade’s end, the first prisoners had been brought to the island, and Alcatraz played host to both Confederate prisoners and Union deserters during the Civil War.
Alcatraz Was Home to the First Lighthouse on the U.S. West Coast
During the island’s days as a military outpost, the U.S. constructed a lighthouse to serve vessels crisscrossing the busy shipping lanes of San Francisco Bay. Although the lighthouse tower was built by 1852, the Fresnel lens — a compact lens designed to make lighthouses brighter — didn’t arrive until 1854. Luckily, the delay didn’t cost the lighthouse the impressive accolade of being the first lighthouse constructed on the West Coast of the United States. Sadly, the structure was damaged beyond repair following the catastrophic 1906 San Francisco earthquake. It was rebuilt, however, and still operates to this day.
Prison Life at Alcatraz Wasn’t Always Bad
Alcatraz became a federal prison in 1934, after being transferred to the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Prisons. It was designed as a maximum security penitentiary meant for the most difficult inmates in the federal system, and was partly an attempt to show the public that the government was being tough on the widespread crime of the 1920s and ’30s.
Although Alcatraz cut an intimidating figure, some prisoners reported that the experience wasn’t so bad. The first warden of Alcatraz made sure the food was good to dissuade rioting, and a menu in the 1940s even included “bacon jambalaya, pork roast with all the trimmings, or beef pot pie Anglaise.” Prisoners lived one man to a cell, which wasn’t a certainty in other federal prisons, and had basic rightsto food, shelter, clothing, and medical care. Through good behavior, prisoners could earn privileges that included work on the island and even playing music. In fact, Alcatraz’s reputation far surpassed those of some other federal prisons, and occasionally inmates around the country even requested transfers to “The Rock.”
Al Capone Wrote Love Songs While an Inmate at Alcatraz
Arguably the prison’s most famous inmate was Al Capone, who was known at Alcatraz as Prisoner 85. Although a ruthless mob leader who ran the Italian American organized crime syndicate known as the Chicago Outfit, Scarface was finally put behind bars for tax evasion in 1931. In a few instances, he resorted to violence when provoked, but he mostly spent time playing banjo in the prison band the Rock Islanders, and writing love songs. In 2017, Capone’s handwritten lyrics to one song, titled “Humoresque,” sold at auction for $18,750. The lyrics included such memorable lines as “You thrill and fill this heart of mine, with gladness like a soothing symphony, over the air, you gently float, and in my soul, you strike a note.” Capone was eventually released from prison in November 1939, after more than seven years behind bars, by which time he was in ill health due to an untreated case of syphilis.
No One Has Ever Escaped From Alcatraz (Probably)
Of the 14 escape attempts at Alcatraz, all failed — except one daring attempt (forever immortalized in the 1979 film Escape From Alcatraz). On June 12, 1962, an early morning bed check at the prison revealed that three inmates were missing from their beds — and in a made-for-Hollywood twist, they’d been replaced by papier-mâché heads constructed in secret to fool the night guards.
While hacking together homemade life vests (an idea they got from the DIY magazine Popular Mechanics), the escapees tried their luck across the bay toward San Francisco. The FBI discovered the vests on Cronkhite Beach and found other bits of evidence (including letters sealed in rubber) scattered throughout the bay — but the authorities never found any evidence of the men living in the U.S. or abroad, and believed they actually drowned in the bay’s frigid waters. The FBI closed the caseon December 31, 1979, but the U.S. Marshals Service has continued to investigate.
Native Americans Occupied Alcatraz
One problem with running a prison on an island is that it can be pretty expensive to maintain, and so in March 1963, the century-old military outpost-turned-penitentiary closed its doors — but that wasn’t the end of its story.
In November 1969, a group of Native Americans led by activist Richard Oakes traveled to Alcatraz and began an occupation of the island that lasted 19 months. The group referenced the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie, which allowed Native people to repossess retired or abandoned federal land, as the basis for their seizure. They issued a proclamation that included a letter to the “Great White Father and All His People,” which highlighted the hypocrisy of the U.S. government’s treatment of Native Americans both past and present. Over the following months, the occupation grew in size to as many as 600 people, before numbers began to dwindle in January 1970. The government cut off electrical and water supplies to the island, food became scarce, and in June 1971 U.S. marshals forcibly removed the final 15 occupiers from the island.
A highly publicized moment of Indigenous activism, the protest brought considerable attention to the plight of America’s Native peoples. In 1970, President Richard Nixon even ended the U.S.’s decades-long termination policy — an effort to forcibly eliminate tribes and assimilate Native Indians into American society. The occupation of Alcatraz was the first intertribal protest, and part of a rich history of modern Native American activism.
The above was taken from an article from “Interesting Facts”:
Cue the disingenuous cries of free speech. This is so NOT a free speech issue and they know it. They always hide behind misinterpretations to get away with their B.S.
He should have been remanded to custody months ago. It's so stupid that it's taken this long to get a gag order. He keeps doing it, because he keeps getting away with it.