To be frank, Donald Trump is already facing down a world of trouble with regard to his relentless public attacks and threats against anyone who dares to come after him — more namely, Garland-appointed DOJ Special Counsel Jack Smith who has now lodged a whopping four formal criminal indictments against the scandal-ridden former president, with no end in sight.
Donald’s public behavior and rhetoric have grown so severe, in fact, that prosecutors with Smith’s office have been left with no choice but to request an order of protection to be put into place against former President Trump, as his threats have reached a boiling point that Smith and his office fear “could have a harmful chilling effect on witnesses.”
Of course, instead of tucking his tail and shutting his mouth like one would be expected to do in a situation like this, Trump and his people have only grown more vehement in doubling down on their dangerous rhetoric — much to what we can only imagine is the intense dismay of the legal team that’s been tasked with defending this disgraced blowhard.
Even yesterday, as Trump’s team of attorneys was facing down a strict, critical deadline in connection to the aforementioned threats and subsequent protective order, their client was making a complete ass out of himself, launching yet another fresh round of the very same attacks he’s standing accused of.
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Nevertheless, Donald Trump’s legal team was able to complete their response by the deadline.
In their response, filed yesterday, the team of Trump attorneys wrote:
President Trump does not contest the government’s claimed interest in restricting some of the documents it must produce. …However, the need to protect that information does not require a blanket gag order over all documents produced by the government.
Rather, the Court can, and should, limit its protective order to genuinely sensitive materials – a less restrictive alternative that would satisfy any government interest in confidentiality while preserving the First Amendment rights of President Trump and the public.”
CNN’s Katelyn Polantz weighed in on the Trump team’s response and noted that it really wasn’t that far removed from what prosecutors requested in their proposed protective order.
“One of the things that the Trump team says is they just don’t want a what’s called a protective order or a nondisclosure order over all of the evidence that they’re getting in the case,” Polantz explained, noting that the Trump legal team only wants the protection to apply to genuinely sensitive information.
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