One thing you can say about Judge Cannon is that she does not take crap from Jack Smith and his co-Democrats. On Monday, she threatened to throw Smith’s assistant prosecutor, David Harbach, out of the courtroom after he tried to intimidate her by being very nasty. He probably won’t try that again. Today’s session was held to hear Smith’s motion to place a gag order on President Trump. Smith is trying to silence Trump in the middle of the presidential campaign.
The judge did not rule on the original gag order and now Smith is seeking a second gag order to prevent Trump from talking about the FBI authorizing lethal force during the raid on Mar-a-Lago. But, it is the truth, so why should he be banned from bringing that up? Merrick Garland claimed the same order applied to Biden, but for some strange reason, he refused to furnish proof of that.
President Trump’s lawyers lashed out at Jack Smith earlier this month in response to the special counsel’s second request for a gag order:
“In Jack Smith’s most recent shocking display of overreach and disregard for the Constitution, the Special Counsel’s Office asks the Court to enter an unconstitutional gag order as one of the release conditions on the leading candidate in the 2024 presidential election.”
Judge Cannon admonished Harbach and warned him he would have to leave the courtroom if he couldn’t act appropriately:
“Mr. Harbach, I don’t appreciate your tone. I expect decorum in my courtroom at all times. If you cannot [act appropriately], one of your colleagues can”
VISIT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNELHarbach apologized to the judge once he found out that she could not be intimidated, but the judge found out that Harbach could be. President Trump’s lead lawyer Todd Blanche argued that Jack Smith’s gag order would have a “chilling effect” on President Trump. Smith and Harbach tried to force through the gag order claiming that Trump was promoting violence against the FBI agents whom have been threatened due to their illegal raid against a law2 abiding American citizen. I never condone violence, but Trump never tried to bring violence against the agents.
Indeed, Judge Cannon asked Harbach to show her in his filings where President Trump called for violence. That shut him up.
David Harbach argued that Trump isn’t allowed to lie about the FBI.
“Lies. Lies about the FBI coming to do violence to your family. In our opinion, that is way over the line,” Harbach said according to ABC News.
Trump didn’t lie about the FBI but lies are First Amendment protected speech.
Harbach threw a tantrum over protected speech and argued that Trump called for violence against the FBI.
“The most important thing is it talks about an event that is central to this case in utterly misleading terms,” Harbach said according to ABC News. “The government is at a loss to conceive any possible reason Mr. Trump would say something so false … and inviting of retributive violence.”
Judge Cannon wasn’t buying it and called him out.
“Where on the attachments do you see a call for violence?” Cannon said.
Judge Cannon last month indefinitely postponed the classified documents case after Special Counsel Jack Smith admitted to tampering with evidence.
The Judge vacated the May 20, 2024 trial date. It may be several months until Judge Cannon sets a new trial date.
