Gagging Trump! Good Luck with that One! By Charles Taylor (Florida)

Apparently, Trump has not yet been issued with a gag order, but the feeling of commentators is that he soon will be as the case proceeds. Obviously if he obeys it, which as a law and order guy he will do, his election abilities will be vastly reduced, if the order is to make him silent on everything. Probably though such an order would be knocked over on First Amendment grounds by a superior court. But it is likely that  a restricted gag order dealing with just the case will still stand.

Trump will then need to be innovative in the campaign, maybe bringing along to rallies another speaker, and there are plenty. to address the Third World injustices that are being processed. His running mate could do the job. And, beyond even this is the possibility of Trump being imprisoned, and conducting an electoral campaign from prison. It is a whole new world of decay of the rule of law.”

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/04/a_gag_order_on_trump_could_bring_chaos.html

“The Trump campaign, along with a number of astute legal observers, believes the judge hearing the case being brought by Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg, Juan Merchan, could issue a gag order. The UK Daily Mail reports:

Donald Trump's legal team is preparing for a New York judge to slap a gag order on the former president on Monday, DailyMail.com can reveal, a day before he is due to be arrested in Manhattan.

The extraordinary move to potentially silence a candidate for president will likely enflame Trump's supporters as he prepares to fly out of his Florida home.

'The Trump legal team now thinks that the Manhattan judge will take the unprecedented step of silencing the presidential frontrunner with an unconstitutional gag order tomorrow,' said a source.

A gag order issued by an anti-Trump judge could be a convenient way to put an end to the former president's 2024 presidential campaign. If its terms are excessive, Mr. Trump couldn't campaign if he honors it.  If he violates it and is held in contempt, he can't campaign in a state that would extradite him.  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' previous announcement that he would refuse an order to extradite the former president could potentially mean that Trump would campaign from his adoptive home state of Florida and nowhere else. So-called front porch campaigns, in which a candidate remains close at home, have happened successfully in the past, notably with William McKinley, in addition to James Garfield, Benjamin Harrison and Warren G. Harding.  Joe Biden’s basement campaign in 2020 might also qualify, but none of these men were fugitives from a warrant.

It is not difficult to imagine the Florida governor issuing  a statement expressing incredulity at the turn of events in politically-biased Manhattan. Gov DeSantis could add:  "I am merely saving the federal government the cost of explaining to the Manhattan judge why the Former Presidents Act effectively bars incarceration of a former president -- unless the judge anticipates the incarcerated president to be protected in jail by his Secret Service detail -- as federal law requires round-the-clock protection of the president."

The protection given by federal law to the former president would protect him against partisan zealots who would like nothing better than to see him behind bars, where he would  liable to physical assault without the protection of his Secret Service detail.

Would Republicans unite in speaking out publicly opposition to a gag order imposed on a former president protected under federal law?   After all, the legal system that is fast becoming a global laughingstock is the source of their livelihood.   In defending Trump against partisan injustice in New York, they would be defending their profession against ridicule.

https://www.infowars.com/posts/roger-stone-warns-gag-order-on-trump-would-be-election-interference/

“Longtime Donald Trump associate Roger Stone, Jr. told journalist Chris Nelson in Florida on Sunday a gag order placed on Donald Trump or his family would constitute election interference.

Speaking with the media about the current indictment of Trump by far-left New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg, Stone explained, “My great concern now is that the judge in New York, in the county court where Trump has been indicted, will now issue a gag order on Donald Trump and potentially members of his family so they cannot comment on any aspect of the trial of the case.”

Stone continued to explain a judge placed a gag order on him back in 2019, saying, “This is exactly what was done to me. For sixteen months I was not allowed to defend myself in any public forum. It’s unconstitutional, it would clearly be election interference since he is a candidate for the Republican nomination for president, but it’s a New York judge so don’t be surprised when it happens.”

The political insider suggested the judge in the Trump case will likely issue a gag order and prolong the appeal process for as long as possible while illegally preventing the 45th President from commenting on the case.

Getting to the bottom of the matter, Stone told Nelson, “We haven’t even read the indictment. This is the irony here, which is right now you and I are discussing a leak in the New York Times and CNN. CNN says there’s 34 counts. How could they possibly know that unless they were the recipients of an illegal leak? This is today’s America.”

Stone’s remarks come as former President Donald Trump left Florida for New York on Monday morning ahead of his Tuesday arraignment.”