Jack Smith takes the fight directly at Donald Trump
This week Donald Trump made the unhinged false suggested that President Biden sent federal law enforcement to kill him while carrying out the search and seizure warrant at Mar-a-Lago. This is obviously false for numerous reasons. The language in the warrant was standard procedure stuff. The Feds knew Trump wasn’t even home at the time the warrant was served. And Biden would have had nothing to do with the warrant.
But Trump’s unhinged words have a way of motivating his unhinged supporters to do unhinged things (see January 6th and numerous lower profile incidents). So there’s a concern that Trump could be putting law enforcement officers in harm’s way by spreading these false conspiracy theories about federal law enforcement trying to murder him.
To that end, Special Counsel Jack Smith has filed for a gag order against Donald Trump, preventing him from saying these kinds of things about law enforcement while awaiting his federal criminal trial for stealing classified documents.
Of course the judge in that trial is Aileen Cannon, and given that she’s as incompetent as she is compromised, it’s anyone’s guess what she might do. But if she does refuse to grant such an obvious gag order, it could finally give Jack Smith enough of a case to convince the 11th Circuit to take the trial away from her.
