The Expanded Gag Order Is Not Enough: Revoke Trump's Bail
Trump's behavior is escalating and becoming more dangerous. It is time to revoke his bail.
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Trump’s Threat To Biden
There has always been an indication that the nation would end up in this place with Donald Trump. On Good Friday, yes the Bible salesman did around a religious holiday, it was noticed that within a video of a truck outfitted in Trump gear was a graphic of Joe Biden being bound and hogtied in the back of the vehicle.
Trump left himself deniability by not directly sharing the image of the threat to Biden, or not directly threatening Biden. It was an image within a video that the ex-president shared with no commentary about threatening President Biden. Therefore, the situation is more muddy than some claimed when they said that Trump shared an image threatening Biden. Trump didn’t directly threaten Biden, but if it was anybody else engaging in this behavior, the Secret Service would be knocking on their door.
Legal experts immediately thought that more should be done.
Richard Painter posted that if any other defendant did what Trump has done, their bail would be revoked, “Any other criminal defendant who attacked the judge's daughter this way would have his bail revoked and be in jail.”
Former Mueller investigator Andrew Weissmann posted:
Trump is out on bail in 4 criminal cases. He posted a photo of the president bound, gagged, and shot. Threatening a president is a federal crime and also a violation of bail release conditions. Time for courts to act.
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I’d add that apart from the gag order, there are bail conditions at play. Anyone out on bail, as Trump is, cannot commit a crime without violating his bail conditions.
Trump violated his bail conditions. After Trump threatened the judge’s family in the Manhattan criminal case, DA Alvin Bragg requested that the gag order on Trump be expanded to include family members.
The judge granted the request, but it is still not enough.
As we will discuss below, more needs to be done.
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