If I ever find myself as a defendant in a fraud trial, maybe I should try repeatedly insulting the judge, prosecutor, and clerk and calling them names, just to see what happens next. Wanna bet I'd find my ass in jail with a contempt charge? Every day, Trump shows there really is a two-tiered justice system.

Now imagine if you or I acted this way. We would go straight to prison.

I cannot believe how far we've fallen.

Why the fuck would you pause it? They should lock an actual gag around his mouth and leave it there.

I, for one, am shocked!

Jk everyone knew this would happen

A lawyer for Mr. Trump, Alina Habba, praised the appellate court after the Thursday hearing and quickly took advantage of the development.

Ms. Greenfield “is in the judge’s ear time and time again,” Ms. Habba said. “If she had a real threat, she should get off the bench.”

"We have never encouraged death threats against the individuals we scream about online, while sharing their names, pictures and even addresses. But if those people have gotten death threats at some point after our unrelated personal attacks, then clearly they should give in to the demands of the people threatening them. Demands which just so happen to align with our interests."

I can only hope that this shithead ends up facing legal problems like so many other Trump lawyers. Or that she ends up getting doxed and harassed so severely that she becomes a recluse, though I'm not sure what she'd have to do to get anyone to give enough of a shit to put in the effort.

Must be nice to be above the law.

Why would you pause the gag order?

Ffs throw orange Hitler and his ilk in jail. They've proven that they're dangerous, petulant children.

He, without fail, manages to come up with the most annoying shit imaginable. And it’s always about how he is a victim of something “unfair”… from this guy who, other than being a moron, has lived one of the most charmed and fortunate lives possible.

So witness intimidation and jury tampering are no longer a thing, because they're protected under the attacker's free speech rights?

I feel for the targets of his impotent rage. The good of it is this is the crying and gnashing of teeth before he is fined millions of dollars and is forced to divest from New York. So, silver linings I guess

Nobody involved in this is learning any lessons about shit.

Wow, I'm sure this is going to ingratiate him to the judge, who has already ruled guilty and gets to decide to what extent his businesses are dismantled and how high the fines go, which could go as high as $250 million and easily bankrupt his grossly over leveraged fraudulent organization. But no, go on ahead Trump, keep harassing the Judge who is also the jury in this case. See how it plays out in the end.

But seriously, what asinine appellate judge thought staying this order was appropriate? Trump is right, he is treated differently than every other defendant, given vastly more privileges, deference, and advantages than any normal defendant. Any other person would be locked in jail at this point. Most judges falling all over themselves to give him whatever he wants though, many appointed by himself. Gag order may be reinstated within a couple weeks though. And he continues to dig his own grave in terms of providing loads of evidence to support why he should be under gag orders for his other cases as well.

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What a dumbass.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

This week, Mr. Trump’s lawyers challenged both of those orders in an appeals court and on Thursday, the appellate judge, David Friedman, paused them after an hourlong oral argument.

About an hour after the New York gag orders were paused, Jason Miller, a senior adviser to Mr. Trump, posted on social media attacking Allison Greenfield, the clerk, calling her a “Democrat Operative.”

The schedule set by the appeals court means that the gag orders could remain paused for much of the remainder of the civil fraud trial, which stems from a lawsuit brought by the New York attorney general, Letitia James.

Last month, after the judge overseeing Mr. Trump’s federal election interference case briefly paused a gag order she had imposed on him, the former president used the window of opportunity to launch a spree of attacks against the people who had been off limits.

Three times in three days, he called the special counsel, Jack Smith, who had brought the case, “deranged.” Twice, he weighed in about testimony attributed to his former chief of staff, Mark Meadows, who could be a witness in the trial.

Justice Engoron imposed his own gag order on Mr. Trump on Oct. 3, after the former president posted a picture of Ms. Greenfield with Senator Chuck Schumer, the Democratic majority leader.

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He’s such a coward.

Whats it with dump and the clerk?

Trump watching his watch as it hits the end time: YOUR ALL BITCHES!