Donald Trump attacked potential witness Attorney General Bill Barr on Monday, October 30th – just hours after Judge Tanya Chutkan reinstated a gag order against the 77-year-old former president, which was put in place to stop him targeting potential witnesses in his federal election interference trial. And former Trump White House lawyer Ty Cobb believes that he could very well spend time in jail for violating the order!
If you’ll recall, Trump was fined a total of $15,000 at the end of October after violating an order restricting all participants in his New York civil fraud trial from commenting publicly on the Judge’s staff, on two occasions. This order was imposed following a social media post from Trump maligning his principal law clerk who sits beside him in court.
Potentially Serious Consequences For Donald Trump
Unfortunately for Trump, Cobb believes violating the gag order in the federal case will have far more serious consequences! "Well, the New York judge fined him $10,000," Cobb said in an interview with CNN's Erin Burnett, in reference to Trump's second fine which he received for comments made to reporters in the courthouse hallway about “a person who's very partisan sitting alongside” Judge Arthur Engoron, that person being his principal law clerk. The first fine of $5,000 came 5 days earlier when Judge Engoron found that the original offending social media post had actually stayed up for weeks on Trump's campaign website after he had ordered for it to be removed from the former President's Truth Social media platform.
"That's in a civil case. That's not as consequential as Judge Chutkan's case," Cobb added. As for violating the gag order in the federal case, he said: "I think she'll come in with a much heavier penalty, and ultimately, I think he'll spend a night or a weekend in jail," adding: "I think it's going to take that. I think it'll take that to stop him."
Donald Trump Violates Judge Chutkan's Gag Order
"I called Bill Barr Dumb, Weak, Slow Moving, Lethargic, Gutless, and Lazy, a RINO WHO COULDN'T DO THE JOB. He just didn't want to be Impeached, which the Radical Left Lunatics were preparing to do. Bill Barr is a LOSER!" Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social on October 30th, just 75 minutes after the gag order was reinstated.
And the attacks didn't stop there, as Trump then turned his attention to Judge Chutkan, who is overseeing Trump's federal case resulting from efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, calling her "Trump hating" once again.
Trump is already attacking Judge Chutkan's Sunday night decision, reinstating his gag order, in a Truth Social post that he made in the middle of the night. pic.twitter.com/dh1effEkPf
— Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule) October 30, 2023
"I have just learned that the very Biased, Trump Hating Judge in D.C., who should have RECUSED herself due to her blatant and open loathing of your favorite President, ME, has reimposed a GAG ORDER which will put me at a disadvantage against my prosecutorial and political opponents," Trump wrote.
He also accused her of "unconstitutionally [taking] away my First Amendment Right of Free Speech, in the middle of my campaign for President, where I am leading against BOTH Parties in the Polls." He added: "Few can believe this is happening, but I will appeal. How can they tell the leading candidate that he, and only he, is seriously restricted from campaigning in a free and open manner? It will not stand!"
A few hours later, Trump wrote another message once again attacking Chutkan, writing: "The Obama appointed Federal Judge in D.C, a TRUE TRUMP HATER, is incapable of giving me a fair trial. Her Hatred of President DONALD J. TRUMP is so great that she has been diagnosed with a major, and incurable, case of TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME!"
