Chutkan has other options besides a gag order with a threat of jail if Trump doesn’t comply. She could summon Trump to court and admonish him directly, subject him to escalating fines with each confirmed violation, or threaten to move up his trial.

Alright, let's see some of those consequences.

It's completely preposterous that Trump can keep breaking rules, laws, regulations and court orders with impunity because the entire nation is too fucking scared about what might possibly happen if we held Trump to the same fucking standard as everybody else.

We all knew he would do this. We’re all just here for the show. 🍿

I mean this is a guy that bragged about taking a dementia test. A more reasonable politician would have said something like: "now that that is done we can end the personal attacks and talk about this part of my agenda". It is entirely expected that this would happen.

It hurt itself in its confusion!

Generally when on trial it's best to keep your mouth shut publicly. This doofus is campaigning, and he's so bad at just following a script, so he goes on insane rants and talks about Hannibal Lecter 's support for him. Running a campaign at the same time as a trial would be challenging for a smart person, but Trump is unable to use his head and keep his mouth shut.

Good. He wants to shoot himself in the micropenis, I’ll laugh at his expense.

As long as he remains former president Trump, I'm happy. i just wish he would disappear.

It's god damn hilarious that Trump thinks he's a modern Eugene Debs

Don't worry, he's "a very stable genius".

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Yet at a Wednesday night rally in Florida, Trump boasted anew about information that he suggested might be classified, and he repeated past claims that he was justified in keeping sensitive documents at his Mar-a-Lago home and private club.

Asked for comment, Trump spokesman Steven Cheung said he and his lawyers “are fighting together — in the courtroom and in the court of public opinion” against what they charge are leaks by the Biden administration and politically motivated prosecutions.

In an interview with NBC’s “Meet The Press” last month, Trump kneecapped a key defense strategy his lawyers have raised in that case — that he was fighting the election results based on advice from attorneys.

On Monday, U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan — who is overseeing Trump’s pending D.C. election-obstruction trial — will consider a broader gag order to prevent him from intimidating witnesses or tainting the jury pool in that case.

One adviser, who like others spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal strategy, said that the indictments had helped Trump with a political problem: Small-dollar donors were not giving at levels like they had in the past, and some data showed sagging enthusiasm for his candidacy.

One former Trump lawyer said that during the investigation of potential Russian interference in the 2016 election, the president’s attorneys urged him in an Oval Office meeting not to tweet about special counsel Robert S. Mueller III or the probe itself.

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