by special counsel jack smith here in the district. she imposed this gag order, barring trump from targeting witnesses in the case, members of the court staff, and even the special counsel itself. t she imposed that gag order at the request of prosecutors, but she did not limit his ability to talk about washington, d.c., the potential jury pool, or the justice department, which prosecutors had also sought protection for those two groups. but here, she has argued, she has said look, i understand she has a first amendment right, but that must yield to the orderly administration of justice. she said that she has to put on a trial, she needs to protect members of her staff, people involved in this case just trying to do their jobs. that is why she imposed this gag order and declined to freeze it herself. the former president s lawyers have argued that this is a violation of his first amendment. they point to the fact that he s once again running for the white house and that what
environment that prosecutors handling cases involving the ex-president are facing right now. in the federal indictment of a man who allegedly made let s to fulton county district attorney fani wli and fulton county sheriff patrick la bat. arthur ray hanson ii was charged on monday for making threats to willis and la bat back in august, days before willis charged trump and 18 others in a sweeping rico case alleging a, quote, criminal enterprise that sought to overturn the r new york times reports this, quote, in a voicemail message for sheriff labatt mr. hanson threatened the sheriff to not take a mugshot of,quote, my president, donald trump, that s according to the indictment. i m warning you right now adding that t sheriff to,quote, get hurt real ba he also left aoicemail message for ms. willis in which he threatened her and referred to the georgia case. ing to your car at night, when you re going into your house. tch everywhere that you re going mr. hanson said according
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the president will be out there talking about trumps convictions , the weight of that, how it matters to the american people. what can we expect on that front? i think you can expect to hear the president say what he said when he taught challenged donald trump to the debates. you can expect him to hear about the role trump played in overturning roe v wade and the fact that he is still out here on the stump saying these extreme level abortion bands are playing out brilliantly. you can certainly expect him to say what he said on friday when he said it is reckless and dangerous to be attacking the rule of law, to be undermining our democracy, to be undermining the judiciary. that is something trump continues to do as he spirals following his criminal conviction and of course you can expect to hear the president stand up and defend
make sure there are people ready to go and staff the next trump administration who are fully signed up to his program. so rather than having political appointees who serve as their role to stop him from doing some of the things he might want to do, you have a large cadre of people studied the department, studied the law and know what they re doing. the first time often drive by chaos and by an administration that wanted do do much of what it wanted to do. a second one would be methodical and better prepared. you talked a bit about personnel, a lot about personnel. i want to focus on one specific role that seemed to be critical of the administration and that would be the role of attorney general. the first role trump had didn t to certain degrees as you