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
donation. and more importantly, as the players association statement pointed out, it s their labor. money for nba teams, the orlando magic s money that they donated to ron desantis, doesn t come from a magic tree elf. it came from the work of those players on the court. and the fact that their work has been turned into a contribution for someone running for president who has come out with statements that they think directly oppose who they are as people, it s very difficult to stomach. i have to think it s not just the players but the fans who get upset about this. i m a little surprised the league allows this sort of thing. like you said, it doesn t happen, so i suppose this is maybe a bit of a test case. what does this do to the players? does it put them in a position where they re kind of in between a rock and a hard place? they can speak out through the players union, but not a whole lot they can do individually or publicly? we ve had individual players around the league react