News broke today that prosecutors with the United States Department of Justice have now formally requested an order of protection against Donald J. Trump, following a public and openly threatening social media post made by the scandal-plagued former president yesterday afternoon, just one day after his bombshell arraignment on criminal charges related to his efforts to tamper with the 2020 presidential election.
On Thursday, former President Donald Trump was formally arraigned on his fourth bombshell, historical criminal indictment — the third to come down on his head by Garland-appointed DOJ Special Counsel Jack Smith.
The arraignment was just Trump’s most recent appearance before a court of law, this time on a variety of criminal charges lodged against him by Special Counsel Smith, on behalf of the US Depart of Justice, from his alleged crimes related to his efforts to overthrow the 2020 United States presidential election, including the infamous, deadly January 6th Capitol attack.
This was Donald Trump’s third formal, criminal arraignment.
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On Friday afternoon, Trump took to his Truth Social platform, where he penned this cryptic and openly threatening message to anyone who dares to “go after” him — more specifically, Special Counsel Jack Smith and his prosecutors:
IF YOU GO AFTER ME, I’M COMING AFTER YOU!”
By Friday evening, the Justice Department proposed a protective order on the basis of the ex-president’s Truth Social post, arguing that this threatening message along with additional similar messages Trump is likely to make in the near future “could have a harmful chilling effect on witnesses.”
Now, in the truest of Trump fashion, the disgraced former president’s campaign has chosen to openly double down on and vehemently defend Donald’s unhinged threats.
Just hours after the news of the proposed protective order broke, the Trump Campaign released an official statement, in which they fiercely defended Donald Trump’s controversial social media post:
The Truth post cited is the definition of political speech, and was in response to the RINO, China-loving, dishonest special interest groups and Super PACs, like the ones funded by the Koch brothers and the Club for No Growth.”
As Trump’s legal woes have grown with increasing speed and severity, the ex-president has become obsessed with the notion of revenge and retaliation, operating on the assumption that he will soon be back in the White House with the powers of the US presidency backing him once again.
In a Truth Social post made earlier this week, Trump warned, “The Dems don’t want to run against me or they would not be doing this unprecedented weaponization of ‘Justice.’ BUT SOON, IN 2024, IT WILL BE OUR TURN. MAGA!”
In addition to his social media posts, Trump shared a clip of Fox host Jesse Watters openly warning, “Don’t you think for a second he’s not gonna unleash hell on all of his political enemies. This is only the beginning of politicians putting other politicians and their families in prison. Sad we had to go down this road but this is where we are and now we have to finish it.”
I certainly get the feeling that this is only the beginning of Trump’s truest, most terrifying colors.
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