When Trump speaks 'he is a clear and present danger': legal analyst
Discussing an upcoming ruling on a gag order issued by Judge Tanya Chutkan, MSNBC legal analyst Danny Cevallos told host Alex Witt that judges on the D.C. Court of Appeals have to keep in mind that, when Donald Trump rants about court workers, their lives are endangered.
"Here's an indisputable fact," he told the host. "When Trump speaks, they [his followers] do stupid things – that is an undisputed fact."
"So the next step is, in this analysis, do we curtail Donald Trump's speech because of this behavior of other people that are not Donald Trump?" he suggested. "And the answer may be as simple as 'yes' because when he speaks it presents a clear and present danger. It needs that exacting standard."
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After some technical difficulties with his audio, he explained Trump is not like "some criminal defendant no one's ever heard of. If he doesn't like the judge or doesn't like the clerk, he can shout all he wants, he can yell out the window, tweet to his 30 followers, and it just won't have the effects. Maybe never in American history has one human being had this effect when they speak."
"That is why this is a unique situation," he added. "It may simply be the case that Donald Trump is entitled to less speech because of how dangerous the speech can be, unlike anybody else in American history."
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