Hes the former Nixon White House counsel. John, you and i have spoken about this and donald trump so many times, but, you know, as i was discussing with one of our producers before this program got started, in the past, you know, we would talk about Donald Trumps tweets and his social media posts and wonder what the impact might be. But it sounds as though the Special Counsel in this case, jack smith, is really seizing on this very inflammatory, threateningsounding post from donald trump on truth social and alerting it to the judge. The government arguing that the restrictions that theyre seeking are necessary to prevent trump from publicly disclosing sensitive discovery information. Can you walk us through what this means . Yeah. It looks like the post from trump came out while they were working on a motion to agree upon a protective order in general to Exchange Discovery material. And this obviously caught their attention. This is not the sort of norm that theyre used to dealing with
press. it s frankly disgusting the way the press is able to write whatever they want to write. as you know, i have a running war with the media. they are among the most dishonest human beings on earth. i call the fake news the enemy of the people, and they are. or freedom of religion. donald j. trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of muslims entering the united states until our country s representatives can figure out what the hell is going on. you ll recall trump s travel ban once called for a, quote, total and complete shutdown of muslims entering the united states until the country can figure out what is going on. the courts struck down that ban, in part because it was, quote, unconstitutionally tainted with animus toward islam. the supreme court eventually allowed it, citing the expansive power of presidential authority. then there is trump s track