The Connecticut Bar Association did the equivalent of dragging a finger across the throat in an ominous threat sent out to any attorney or public officials who speak out against the prosecution of former President Donald Trump. But, remember guys, this whole thing is not, in any way, shape, or form political in nature. Try not to roll your eyes hard enough to pop out of your skull, okay?
While Trump was going through his trial in Manhattan, he would often read out loud comments against his prosecution that were made by lawyers and pundits in the media outside of the courtroom in order to avoid violating the gag order placed on him. Which, come on, they wanted that symbolic duct tape slapped across his mouth in order for him not to use the case and the prosecution against him as material for his presidential campaign.
The powers-that-be overseeing this very clear case of political persecution in the form of a weaponized legal system are terrified Trump will communicate what’s happening to him behind the closed doors of the courtroom to the American public, which would, of course, win more voters to his cause and all but guarantee Biden would receive a one-way ticket to a nursing home this November.
Via The Daily Caller:
Leadership from the CBA railed against “unsubstantiated and reckless” defenses of Trump by lawyers, saying in the statement that “such statements can promote acts of violence against those serving the public as employees of the judicial branch.”
President Trump after the court adjourned today: "I don't think anybody's ever seen anything like this. I'd love to talk to you people. I'd love to say everything that's on my mind, but I'm restricted because they have a gag order." pic.twitter.com/aE1VNxRMq7
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“Words matter. Reckless words attacking the integrity of our judicial system matter even more,” the statement goes on to say. “In the wake of the recent trial and conviction of former President Donald Trump, public officials have issued statements claiming that the trial was a ‘sham,’ a ‘hoax,’ and ‘rigged’; our justice system is ‘corrupt and rigged’; the judge was ‘corrupt’ and ‘highly unethical’; and, that the jury was ‘partisan’ and ‘precooked.’ Others claimed the trial was ‘America’s first communist show trial’—a reference to historic purges of high-ranking communist officials that were used to eliminate political threats.”
The CBA leadership acknowledged that “free speech includes criticism.” The statement, however, claimed that “headlines’ grabbing, baseless allegations” made by public officials against Trump’s prosecution “have no place in the public discourse.”
George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley, a repeated critic of Trump’s Manhattan indictment brought by Democratic Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, responded to the CBA’s warning Saturday. He called the CBA’s rebuke “chilling” and said Trump’s conviction in New York was “a flagrant example of such weaponization of the legal system and should be denounced by all lawyers.”
Jonathan Turley is horrified by the trials against Trump:
"This has really done great damage to the New York legal system." pic.twitter.com/EbzgI6W1zx
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) March 25, 2024
“For those lawyers who view such prosecutions as political, they are speaking out in defense of what they believe is the essence of blind justice in America. What is ‘reckless’ to the Connecticut Bar is righteous to others. Notably, the Bar officials did not write to denounce attacks on figures like Bill Barr or claims that the Justice Department was rigging justice during the Trump years,” Turley stated in the piece.
A jury in Manhattan, which was likely comprised primarily of anti-Trumpers, given that’s the vast majority of individuals that make up the population of the area, found the former president guilty on all thirty-four counts of falsifying business records.