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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Sat Nov 4, 2017, 01:58 PM Nov 2017

Could Trump Be Gagged?

PROSECUTOR TO TRUMP: SHUT UP OR FACE GAG ORDER FROM RUSSIA PROBE SPECIAL COUNSEL

BY TOM PORTER ON 11/4/17 AT 1:02 PM

Special Counsel Robert Mueller could gag President Donald Trump if he criticizes and attempts to influence the investigation into alleged collusion between the Trump camp and Russia, according to a Watergate prosecutor.

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Attorney Nick Akerman, a prosecutor in the Watergate investigations, told Politico Friday that Mueller could issue a gagging order to prevent the president interfering with the investigation.

He warned that the president had defamed a potential government witness who is likely to be called in a federal trial. “This could be grounds for Mueller to obtain a gag order on Trump,” Akerman said. “It would be unprecedented, but he is interfering with the government’s right to a fair trial.”

In order for a gag order to be imposed on the president, Mueller would have to have the request signed off by a federal judge who agreed that the president’s public statements risked prejudicing the case. The federal judge overseeing the criminal trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and business partner Rick Gates, who were indicted Monday, said she is inclined to impose a gag order in the case.

Trump’s statements on the Mueller probe were one of several during the week in which he criticized ongoing criminal investigations.

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http://www.newsweek.com/robert-mueller-could-gag-trump-if-president-attacks-russia-probe-702049
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lark

(23,203 posts)
2. Yeah, what would happen then?
Sat Nov 4, 2017, 02:02 PM
Nov 2017

Is there anything the courts can do to enforce this when the (in)justice Dept. under the malignant elf refuses to take action to enforce it?

Control-Z

(15,682 posts)
4. Wouldn't that be fun?
Sat Nov 4, 2017, 02:06 PM
Nov 2017

Too bad they couldn't use a real gag or a nice big strip of duct tape to literally shut him up. Gawd, I'm becoming a terrible person.

ETA: MineralMan read my mind. Thank you, MineralMan, for the most excellent graphic!

 

Amimnoch

(4,558 posts)
14. LOL, damn, I knew someone would have beaten me to that response.
Sat Nov 4, 2017, 04:46 PM
Nov 2017

Was the first thing that popped into my head when I saw the thread title.

SergeStorms

(19,205 posts)
17. Do it now!
Sat Nov 4, 2017, 05:48 PM
Nov 2017

Gagged, bound, and lowered into a boiling vat of peanut oil. I like my FAKE presidents to be "extra crispy".

Maeve

(42,314 posts)
18. No. He's too good at digging holes for himself with his mouth
Sat Nov 4, 2017, 05:54 PM
Nov 2017

He couldn't help himself, so he blathered that he fired Comey for the 'Russia thing'--which, of course, was one of the starting points for an obstruction of justice case. His tweets are part of why the Muslim bans keep getting over-ruled. Don, Jr just had to release the e-mails that proved he was trying to get Russian help against Hillary. These bozos are their own worst enemies in the legal sense--don't gag them!!!

OxQQme

(2,550 posts)
19. I agree Maeve
Sat Nov 4, 2017, 06:40 PM
Nov 2017

I wouldn't like the rats scurrying around where they can't be seen and cornered.
Same with his twitter rants.
It's best to know what he's thinking.

VOX

(22,976 posts)
20. Put a cork stopper in #45, he'll overinflate and explode like the Yellowstone Caldera.
Sat Nov 4, 2017, 06:44 PM
Nov 2017

Risky, but...desperate times.

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