Jack Smith

Donald Trump started off the day with a series of posts blaming President Joe Biden for his legal woes and attacking a federal judge overseeing his prosecution in the election subversion case.

District Judge Tanya Chutkan reinstated a gag order Sunday against the former president that prohibits him from publicly targeting court personnel, potential witnesses or the special counsel’s team, but hours later Trump lashed out at her and threatened to prosecute Biden if he wins re-election, and he started off Monday with social media posts on the same theme.

For years, former President Donald Trump has been feeding his supporters conspiracy theories about the 2020 election having been stolen or rigged against him, all of which culminated in his now criminally charged plots to overturn the vote, and the subsequent violent attack on the U.S. Capitol by his supporters.

But Trump's "big lie" about the election is now mutating, warned columnist Heather Digby Parton for Salon — and it's being used to cover up and gaslight voters about his old lies.

MSNBC Daily writer and editor Hayes Brown explained to host Ayman Mohyeldin that the gag orders against Donald Trump aren't working and he's not certain that even the federal one will at this point either.

"If anyone else was attacking figures like Judge Tanya Chutkan and [special counsel] Jack Smith, the truth is there would be a lot more trouble than a gag order, no?" Mohyeldin asked.

Donald Trump used his First Amendment rights to claim he was having his First Amendment rights violated by President Joe Biden's administration.

In one of his many rants on social media Sunday, Trump claimed, The Corrupt Biden Administration just took away my First Amendment Right To Free Speech. NOT CONSTITUTIONAL!"

Politico reports that Judge Tanya Chutkan will not pause her gag order while Donald Trump is appealing it.

Reporter Kyle Cheney posted the update on social media Sunday, explaining there was a temporary hold on it while motions were filed. Now, it's gone, putting Trump back under the gag. ABC News reporter Katherine Faulders also confirmed the report.

Due to stipulations contained within her plea deal with Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, former Donald Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis is poised to become a major weapon that multiple prosecutors will use against her old boss.

That is the opinion of attorneys Norman Eisen and Amy Lee Copeland in a column for the New York Times, where they explain that Ellis immediately moves to the top of the list over fellow Trump attorneys Kenneth Chesebro and Sidney Powell when it comes to insiders who can hand prosecutors what they are searching for while at the same time providing pertinent testimony that can cripple a key defense argument Trump's current lawyers are expected to deploy.

A judge set a deadline for Donald Trump to decide whether he wants his federal election subversion trial to be televised.

District Judge Tanya Chutkan notified the former president that he has until Nov. 10 to issue a petition on whether the trial in Washington, D.C. should be broadcast live when it starts, which is scheduled to be almost four months later.

Several codefendants in Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis' sprawling racketeering case have received plea deals in exchange for their cooperation with prosecutors' case – but many have not.

The Guardian's Hugo Lowell reports that the lack of a deal for a number of key Trump associates -- most notably attorneys John Eastman and Rudy Giuliani – suggests that Willis is determined to make them stand trial without the possibility of cutting an agreement that will help them avoid jail time.