Brett Toman, a former United States Attorney, issued a warning on Monday that the judge who is currently presiding over the trial of former President Donald Trump has put himself in a situation where he will have to place him in jail if he violates the gag order again. Which is precisely what the radical left wants. It will help boost their morale and provide them with endless meme material they, along with the political candidates running for a variety of offices can utilize for campaign ads.
They want Trump to appear to be a lawless individual with no respect for authority. Leftists are attempting to create a narrative to make the former president look like a threat to democracy by painting a picture of him as someone who believes he’s above the law. What is hilarious about this is that it is Democrats like Joe Biden and his wayward son Hunter Biden who have done everything in their power to avoid being held accountable for their actions, but that’s a topic for another day.
According to the fine folks at the Daily Caller:
Judge Juan Merchan on Monday found Trump violated the gag order for the 10th time, warning next time he would consider imposing a jail sentence on the former president. Merchan must jail Trump if he does not want to appear weak while emboldening the former president by not following through on his threat, Tolman said on “America’s Newsroom.”
“The judge is boxing himself in his own corner at this point,” Tolman went on to say during the program. “He’s going to be the one that is going to threaten and he is going to fine this limited fine and he’s doing it with the underlying order being unconstitutional. How does anybody that’s in the position of Donald Trump, who knows it’s an unconstitutional order, how does he, with all of his ability to communicate to the American people, how does he not make comments, how does he not talk about this case? He knows it’s going to be an issue on appeal. But it’s the judge who’s now put himself in this position and he’s going to have to put him in jail because he’s now threatened it. Otherwise, he looks feckless and the president gets stronger.”
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“Going forward, this court will have to consider a jail sanction,” the judge remarked.
Merchan recently declared the former president to be in contempt after he violated the order a total of nine times, whipping up $9,000 in fines. Man, I don’t know how in the world Trump is going to be able to pay off those fines. What does Merchan think the man is? A billionaire who has run a successful real estate business and owns a growing social media app? Come on!
The gag order bars Trump from making statements regarding witnesses, prosecutors other than the district attorney, court staff and jurors, as well as family members of the staff, district attorney or judge.
CNN senior political analyst Mark Preston in April suggested Trump should spend some time in jail, but also warned of potential strife and fallout for President Joe Biden if the judge decides to lock him up.
“I don’t think we know, but it really does put us between this rock and a hard place, right?” Preston said during the segment. “And the rock is like, listen, he has done something that’s wrong and if it was any of us sitting at this table, would we be, you know, held to a higher standard? Would we have to go, you know, into that holding cell? I think that if he does go into this hole, if that were to happen, first of all, I think you would probably see civil unrest across the country, certainly in some cities. That’s one. And two, politically, if I’m the Biden campaign, I don’t want to necessarily see him in jail because that’s just going to get people more inflamed and more fired up. I don’t think that’s necessarily great for the country. Even if we are bending the rules for someone.”
Let’s hope Trump mops the floor with the Old and the Brainless who currently occupies the White House and then cleans house in the Justice Department so the legal system can stop being utilized as a political weapon.