Former President Donald Trump's game of gag order gotcha is stunning legal experts who say its making U.S. history.
"I've never seen anything quite like this," CNN legal analyst Elie Honig told Wolf Blitzer Friday night.
The legal dealings that stunned the CNN analyst are tied to a gag order implemented by Tanya Sue Chutkan, the federal judge overseeing the election fraud case filed in Washington D.C., which was put on hold to give Trump a chance to appeal.
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"Donald Trump then pretty much immediately violated it while it was on hold," Honig said. "So the judge said okay, I'm unfreezing it and putting the gag order back in place."
If one hold wasn't enough, there was more.
The appeals court — who must seriously consider the ramifications of gagging a candidate in an upcoming presidential election — put the formerly on-hold gag order back on hold.
For Honig, there were two messages to be learned.
The first: "The appeals court is taking Donald Trump's first amendment argument seriously," Honig said. "They're going to hear him out."
The second:
"They have signaled to Donald Trump you're on a very short leash here," Honig said. "We intend to move very, very quickly."
