Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday launched a late-night attack on special counsel Jack Smith that Politico legal reporter Kyle Cheney argued violated Judge Tanya Chutkan's gag order, which she temporarily suspended late last week.
Commenting on the post, in which Trump attacked witnesses who are now cooperating with the special counsel, Cheney argued that it is "like a checklist of things barred by the (now-suspended) gag order."
First, he notes, Trump directly attacked Smith by name and labeled him a "deranged prosecutor."
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Next, Trump publicly cast doubt on testimony reportedly given by former chief of staff Mark Meadows, who was granted immunity by Smith in exchange for his cooperation with the investigation.
And finally, Trump described witnesses who are cooperating with Smith as "weaklings and cowards" who are "so bad for the future our Failing Nation."
Trump currently faces a massive barrage of legal problems, as he has been indicted on 91 felony counts in four different jurisdictions for a wide array of alleged crimes, including financial fraud related to hush money payments to an adult film star, the illegal retention of top-secret government documents at his Mar-a-Lago result, and conspiring to defraud the United States with an attempt to illegally remain in power after losing the 2020 election.
