Now that one of the 2 million Democrat prosecutors chasing Donald Trump has filed a court motion to make it illegal for him to talk about the election, is it okay to laugh anytime Joe Biden frames 2024 as a referendum on "Democracy"?
Just last week, Special Counsel Jack Smith requested that a federal judge in Washington, D.C., place a gag order that would prevent Trump from disparaging Smith's Jan. 6-related case against him, even in political terms.
"[T]he defendant has repeatedly and widely disseminated public statements attacking the citizens of the District of Columbia, the Court, prosecutors, and prospective witnesses," Smith wrote in the filing.
Smith said that remark was made "Without any basis," even as none other than the New York Times wrote in April last year for its millions of readers - does Jack Smith have a subscription? - that Biden has told his associates he wants indictments against his predecessor and that he wanted his attorney general "To act less like a ponderous judge and more like a prosecutor who is willing to take decisive action over the events of Jan. 6.".
That's the context dismissed by Jack Smith as "Without any basis."
The motion comes just a month after the judge in the case, Tanya Chutkan, has already sided with Smith on a similar motion regarding "Inflammatory statements." She said there were limits to what Trump could say "Whether it will affect a political campaign on either side." In essence: Even if Trump's campaign is partly or wholly about the case against him, he can't talk about it.
When Democrats aren't limiting what Trump can talk about in a national election, they're trying to get his name removed from state ballots.
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