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
Saying if trump were to begin posting details from grand jury transcripts it could have a Chilling Effect on witnesses. Remember this is just 24 hours after his arrest and arraignment in his third indictment over election interference and after the judge warned him against making threats. Lets go straight to john dean, hes the former Nixon White House counsel. And 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 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, threatening sounding post from donald trump on truoct 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 u
point really what he s relying on because his military is not achieving its objectives in ukraine, and he s looking for a favorable outcome in political elections here in the u.s. and overseas and hoping to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. that is a long shot to gamble on, and this is going to cost his military and his nation hundreds of thousands of lives because we re talking about another year and change. and based on the casualty rates the russians have been suffering, that s a huge, huge gamble. but of course he s counting on that. he s counting on donald trump. he s counting on jfk correction, rfk jr. as a potential contender or challenger from the left. he s counting on this faction of this extreme faction of the far right and the far left and their ability to somehow confuse or trick the american public into a election victory that could allow putin to believe that he could then
quick victory. of course it s music to putin s ears to have donald trump return to power. it s a significant miscalculation. a hope and a prayer really at this point is what he s relying on because his military is not achieving its objectives in ukraine, and he s looking for a favorable outcome in political elections here in the u.s. and overseas and hoping to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. that is a long shot to gamble on, and this is going to cost his military and his nation hundreds of thousands of lives because we re talking about another year and change, and based on the casualty rates that the russians have been suffering, that s a huge gamble. but of course he s counting on that. he s counting on donald trump. he s counting on rfk jr. as a potential challenger from the left. he s counting on this faction this extreme faction of the far