10/16 2023 Court's In Session -- while we wait...

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3. What the Jack Smith team is saying in court.

Prosecutor says there’s a difference between disparaging and inflammatory comments

By Tom Jackman

Assistant U.S. Attorney Molly Gaston parsed the difference between disparaging comments by the former president and inflammatory remarks.
“He knows and understands the effect of these statements,” Gaston said.
“They are amplified and motivate people to threaten others.
It not only prejudices the jury pool but in the case of witnesses, it threatens and chills witnesses, too.”


She noted that Donald Trump “has demonstrated that he has the ability to regulate his speech.” Gaston cited Trump’s Sept. 17 interview with “Meet the Press.” While “the defendant said false things about the potential testimony of one of the witnesses in the case, he also displayed the ability not to answer questions,” she said.
When Trump was asked on the show about the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, “he repeatedly said … ‘Why would I tell you that?’ He is using his campaign as a platform to make these statements with the intention of trying the case in the court of public opinion rather than this court,” Gaston argued.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/10/16/trump-court-hearing-judge-gag-order-jan-6/