{"id":1991799,"date":"2023-08-05T09:00:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-05T13:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-blasts-doj-protective-order-for-targeting-his-right-to-political-speech\/"},"modified":"2023-08-05T09:02:47","modified_gmt":"2023-08-05T13:02:47","slug":"trump-blasts-doj-protective-order-for-targeting-his-right-to-political-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-blasts-doj-protective-order-for-targeting-his-right-to-political-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump criticizes DOJ protective order, claims it infringes on his right to &#8216;political speech&#8217;."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-blasts-doj-protective-order-for-targeting-his-right-to-political-speech%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1991799&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Former President Donald Trump Criticizes Protective Order, Asserts Right\u2063 to Political Speech<\/h2>\n<p>Former President Donald Trump expressed his dissatisfaction\u200b with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/embattled-texas-school-board-holds-closed-door-meeting-on-superintendent-under-assault-investigation\/\" title=\"Embattled Texas School Board Holds Closed-Door Meeting on Superintendent Under Assault Investigation\">protective order issued<\/a> by the Justice Department late Friday night, accusing prosecutors of\u200b unfairly limiting his right to engage in &#8220;political\u200b speech.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The DOJ filed a \u2062court document at approximately 10 p.m. on Friday, drawing attention to a message Trump shared on his Truth Social account. Prosecutors raised concerns that the former president \u200bmight improperly disclose details about his\u200b ongoing \u2064criminal proceedings. Trump vehemently opposed these efforts, asserting that his social media post falls\u200c within his\u2063 First Amendment rights to express his opinions online.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;The Truth post cited is the epitome of political speech, and it was \u2064a response to the RINO, China-loving, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-blasts-doj-protective-order-for-targeting-his-right-to-political-speech\/\" title=\"Trump criticizes DOJ protective order, claims it infringes on his right to 'political speech'.\">dishonest special interest groups<\/a> and Super \u200cPACs, such as\u200b those funded by the Koch brothers and the Club for No Growth,&#8221; stated a\u2063 spokesperson \u2064for Trump.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The court filing\u200b was prompted by a post\u200d from Trump that warned, &#8220;If you go after me, I&#8217;m coming after you!&#8221; This message raised \u200cconcerns among prosecutors that Trump\u200c might publicly disclose evidence from special counsel Jack Smith&#8217;s criminal case, which \u2064details the former president&#8217;s efforts to overturn the results of \u2063the\u2062 2020 election.<\/p>\n<p>In their filing, \u2062prosecutors urged U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan to issue \u200dan\u2062 order preventing \u200dany findings related to the case from being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/warp-speed-advisor-expects-vaccine-to-ship-mid-december-herd-immunity-by-may\/\" title=\"\u2018Warp Speed\u2019 advisor expects vaccine to ship mid-December, \u2018herd immunity\u2019 by May\">made public<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Such a restriction is particularly crucial in this case because the defendant has previously made public statements on \u2064social media regarding witnesses, judges, attorneys, and others involved in legal matters against him,&#8221;\u200b wrote Senior Assistant Special Counsels Molly Gaston and Thomas Windom in \u200dthe \u2064filing. &#8220;Furthermore, in recent days, the defendant has\u200c made \u200bmultiple posts\u2014either \u200cexplicitly or implicitly\u2014including \u2063the following, which the \u2062defendant posted just hours ago.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The filing does not explicitly request a \u200dgag\u200c order against Trump,\u200d which would prohibit him from\u200c discussing the case outside the\u2063 courtroom or with the media. However, prosecutors noted that they are planning to share a &#8220;significant&#8221; amount of evidence with\u200d Trump&#8217;s\u200b legal team, and \u2062they aim to keep this evidence out of the public eye\u2063 while the \u200bcriminal proceedings unfold.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This request\u200c comes just\u2064 one day after Trump made a trip to Washington, D.C., where he was\u2063 formally charged \u200dwith four federal offenses, including conspiracy to defraud\u2063 the United States, conspiracy \u200bto obstruct an \u2064official proceeding,\u2062 obstruction of \u200cand attempt to obstruct an official proceeding, and conspiracy against rights.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has pleaded not guilty to all\u200c charges. \u2064He is scheduled to appear in court \u2062again on Aug. \u206428 for\u200c a hearing, during which his trial date will be determined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump criticized a late-night protective order from the Justice Department, claiming it unjustly curtailed his &#8220;political speech.&#8221; The DOJ filed a court document at around 10 p.m. on Friday, highlighting a message Trump shared on his Truth Social platform, which prosecutors argue&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1991800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1991799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1991799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1991800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1991799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1991799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1991799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}