Appeals court judges Patricia Millet and Cornelia Pillard hinted on Monday that they are considering narrowing the already-limited gag order to allow Donald Trump to levy some public attacks against special counsel Jack Smith and his team.<\/p>\n
The current gag order prevents the former president to lay any attack on special or his staff via his public statement. However, he is allowed to broadly attack the Justice Department, in order to not only proclaim his innocence but also claim that Smith\u2019s prosecution is \u201cpolitically motivated.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trump cannot be forced under a gag order to \u201cspeak Miss Manners while everyone else is throwing targets\u201d at him during a theoretical GOP presidential primary debate, said Millet.<\/p>\n
On Monday, the judges shun light on the possibility of the jurors being the target of online doxxing as a result of Trump\u2019s speech.<\/p>\n
\u201cIs there any way, preventatively, to protect someone\u2019s technology? Like let\u2019s say I\u2019m a prospective juror, can I be protected technologically from like doxxing?\u201d Millet asked an attorney from the special counsel\u2019s point of view.<\/p>\n
Assistant special counsel Cecil Woods VanDevender said that he was not aware of any technical tools that could be proved helpful to mitigate the issue \u201cat the source.\u201d<\/p>\n
As a result of former president\u2019s speech, the potential issue of the jurors being subjected to online threats has been a recurring topic during Monday\u2019s hearing over the gag order issued against him. This could also play an important factor into the judges\u2019 final verdict on whether or not they will retain the restrictions imposed by a lower court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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