In their true form, the Biden Administration continues to stoop to new lows in their feeble attempt to silence former President Donald Trump. Their latest ploy was having Special counsel Jack Smith legally gag Trump from speaking out against what he called “disparaging and inflammatory” attacks on prosecutors, witnesses, and citizens of his District.
This pathetic move is clearly being used as an intimidation tactic to dissuade people from voting for Trump during the upcoming election. This underhanded approach raises serious questions about whether or not the Justice Department is using its power for political gain instead of upholding justice.
Smith wants Trump's attorneys gagged, too pic.twitter.com/H89ObsnOU1
— Julie Kelly ???????? (@julie_kelly2) September 15, 2023
Constitutional law scholar Jonathan Turley wrote an article published on both his blog and in the New York Post which revealed that Smith seeks to extend some of the prohibitions applied to defense counsels onto Trump himself, amounting essentially to gagging the political opposition during an election year.
In response, Turley called this “anything but ‘narrowly tailored’” and expressed concern that this could be seen as reinforcing Trump’s claims of intentional interference by the Biden Administration.
He even went so far as to call Smith’s proposed motion “chilling” given how broad it was.
Turley observed that four criminal cases have been filed against Donald Trump in Florida, Georgia, New York, and Washington D.C., all within election season – ensuring maximum coverage before voters head into polls come November 2024.
He noted that this daisy-chaining of trials not only speaks volumes about how politically motivated these charges are, but also undermines trust in federal law enforcement since many see them as such—62% according to recent polls—and erodes any semblance of fairness when almost everyone else can discuss the case except for Trump himself.
As Turley aptly concluded at the end of his column: “At this point, a broad gag order is like running for a hand pump on the Titanic.”
