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Jack Smith Asks Court To Jail Trump If He Keeps Yapping About Witnesses

Special counsel Jack Smith wants Donald Trump tossed into the slammer if he keeps talking about witnesses in the federal election case.

The prosecutor asked the court Wednesday to reinstate a gag order on the ex-president with harsher penalties if he violates it ― including jail, The Washington Post reported.

Judge Tanya S. Chutkan had temporarily suspended a limited gag order on Trump in the federal case against him for allegedly conspiring to overturn Joe Biden’s election victory. The original measure was to bar Trump from disparaging prosecutors, court staff and potential witnesses in a pattern that the court filing called “targeting.”

But Smith’s filing urged the judge to reimpose it after Trump hinted on social media that a potential witness, former chief of staff Mark Meadows, would be a weakling and coward if he agreed to testify in exchange for immunity, as had been reported.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/jack-smith-a ... 12662.html

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Donald Trump Jr. Blames FBI for Maine Shootings

Donald Trump Jr. blamed the FBI for the deadly mass shootings that have shaken Maine, saying the bureau could have stopped the shooter if it was less focused on investigating "MAGA patriots."

"The Maine shooter was (as always) known to law enforcement, previously committed to a mental institution and prohibited from owning firearms," he posted on X (formerly Twitter) on Thursday morning.

"If only the FBI would stop spying on Catholics, concerned parents at PTA meetings, and Maga patriots maybe they'd actually stop real terrorists for a change rather than trying to create them," the former president's eldest son said.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/donal ... 75a5&ei=10

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Court arguments on keeping Trump off ballot in Colorado begin

Source: CBS news

October 30, 2023 / 11:19 AM / CBS/AP

A hearing on the use of the Constitution's "insurrection" clause to bar former President Trump from running for president again is underway in Colorado, and oral arguments before the Minnesota Supreme Court in a similar case are scheduled for Thursday.
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The cases both invoke what's known as the disqualification clause, Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, and the provision has now been cited in the two lawsuits brought by voters in Colorado and Minnesota who argue Trump is constitutionally ineligible to hold federal office because of his actions surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol.

The suits aimed at the former president set up what are sure to be closely watched legal battles that will test the reach and force of a constitutional provision enacted in the wake of the Civil War, and the outcomes could upend the Republican primary if Trump, currently the leading candidate for the GOP nomination, is found to be ineligible to seek the White House for a third time.

Section 3 of the 14th Amendment states:

No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
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Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-ball ... on-clause/

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Can't find a reliable source for this (the Palmer report is basically a tabloid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_Report).

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Judge admonishes Trump as ex-president testifies in civil fraud trial: 'We don't have time to waste'

BY JILL COLVIN AND MICHAEL R. SISAK

NEW YORK (AP) — The judge presiding over the civil fraud trial of Donald Trump admonished him to keep his answers concise, reminding him and the courtroom that “this is not a political rally” as the former president and leading Republican president candidate began testifying in a lawsuit accusing him of dramatically inflating his net worth.

“We don’t have time to waste. We have one day to do this,” an exasperated Supreme Court Judge Arthur Engeron said at one point. At another, he said, “In addition to the answers being non-responsive, they’re repetitive.”

Trump’s turn on the witness stand, in a case that cuts to the heart of the business brand he spent decades crafting, represents a remarkable convergence of his legal troubles and his political ventures at a time when he also faces criminal indictments while vying to reclaim the White House in 2024.

The testimony gives him the opportunity to try to use the witness stand as a campaign platform, but its under-oath format, before a judge who has already fined him for incendiary comments outside of court, also invites clear peril for a businessman and candidate famous for a freewheeling rhetorical style.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/trump-fraud- ... ff7a92c3b2

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Trump ‘stands alone in American history for his alleged crimes,’ special counsel says

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Donald Trump “stands alone in American history for his alleged crimes” related to trying to overturn his loss in the 2020 presidential election, special counsel Jack Smith’s office said in a court filing Monday.

“No other president has engaged in conspiracy and obstruction to overturn valid election results and illegitimately retain power,” Smith’s office said in the filing.

In it, Smith formally opposed bids by Trump’s lawyers to dismiss his four-count federal election interference indictment in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C.

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“The defendant also claims that he could not have known his actions were criminal because, in the past, others who have questioned, challenged, or protested election results were not prosecuted,” the special counsel wrote.

“But the defendant stands alone in American history for his alleged crimes.”

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/06/trump-u ... -says.html

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