The numerous legal battles that former President Trump is fighting seem to be hitting roadblocks in their attempt to persecute him, as even Democrats are finding the gag orders unconstitutional and hostile behavior by prosecutors unacceptable.
Now it seems new charges could be coming in the attempts to throw whatever can be found at the former president, even with a slim chance of an actual violation.
Washington Examiner reports:
Former President Donald Trump could find himself in more legal trouble after a priceless gun was reportedly auctioned off from his Mar-a-Lago collection, possibly violating the conditions of his federal indictment.
During a charity event at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home last weekend, a gun described as a “one of a kind Trump Glock from the 45th President of the United States Donald J. Trump” was sold at the auction, according to pictures and videos obtained by Meidas Touch News. That could land Trump in further legal trouble as federal law prohibits individuals who are under federal indictment from buying or selling firearms.
Videos obtained by the outlet show the bidding began at $10,000, although it’s not entirely clear how much the firearm was sold for. However, the individual who purchased the gun could also find themselves in trouble for purchasing the gun from Trump when his federal indictments are so publicly known.
Both Trump and the purchaser could face prison time for the auctioning, according to federal gun prohibitions laid out in the Gun Control Act enforced by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.
Trump recently landed himself in trouble with that law after his campaign posted a photo of the former president holding a gun at Palmetto State Armory in South Carolina earlier this year with the caption, “President Trump purchases a @GLOCKInc in South Carolina!” The campaign later deleted the post, clarifying that Trump did not purchase the firearm but merely “indicated that he wanted one.”
Some pictures obtained by Meidas Touch show Trump present at the auction, although those have not been independently verified by the Washington Examiner. A spokesperson for the former president has not yet responded to a request for comment.
Democrats are truly grasping at straws with the above claims, which equate “wanting one” with actually purchasing a firearm.
As Trump is juggling massive campaign rallies that grow bigger and bigger despite the multiple legal attempts against him, gag orders seem to be one way the Deomcrats seek to silence him.
In Washington, D.C. Trump has responded to Judge Tanya Chutkan’s gag order with a brief stating that there is no cause for the order, and it violates his First Amendment rights.
The New York Times reported that lawyers for the former president sy he is “being muzzled in the midst of a campaign.”
The Hill reports:
“The filing, which comes after several rounds of earlier briefs on the gag order. largely repeats Trump’s arguments that they are a violation of his First Amendment rights, contending ehey are especially important to the candidate for office.
“But they also dismiss Chutkan’s decision as ‘speculation’ that President Trump’s audience might react to his speech with ‘harassment’ or ‘threats’ to prosecutors, witnesses, or court staff.”
“President Trump has made many public statements about this case in the three months since his indictment, and yet the Department of Justice…submitted no evidence of any ‘threats’ or ‘harassment’to prosecutors, witnesses, or court staff during that time,” his attorneys wrote.
In New York, the openly hostile judge and jury Arthur Engoron has issued a new expanded gag order on Friday.
Reuters reports that the order “…bars public statements by lawyers in the case about the judge’s communications with his staff.”
Reuters continues that after Engoron first imposed a gag order on Trump on Oct 3, the judge “has fined Trump $15,000 for twice violating that gag order. The expanded gag order covers lawyers as well after a member of trump’s legal team, Christopher Kise, objected to the clerk passing notesto the judge during the trial.”
“Defense lawyers in the case have made repeated objections about the working relationship between the judge and his clerk,including suggestions that she was biased. Trump has also accused her of bias.”
Amazingly, the Democrat judge has stated that some First Amendment rights are of more concern thatn others, namely, those of former President Trump.
Engoron wrote, “The First Amendment right of defendents and their attorneys to comment on my staff is far and away outweighed by the need to protect them from threats and physical harm.”
It should be noted that no harm has been reported to be inflicted on any of those members of his staff.
Engoron continued, “Failure to honor the gag order shall result in serious santions.” It seems that silencing the defendent is the main objective in the matter.
Trump has denied all wrongdoing across all four cases that are pending, and has pleaded not guilty in all cases.
Rephrased from: The Republic Brief By: Trump Knows
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