Donald Trump seems to use the stay of a gag order ordered by a federal judge to verbally assault a possible witness in one of the cases filed against him.
According to the New York Post, the former president described special counsel Jack Smith as “deranged” and Australian millionaire Anthony Pratt as a “red-haired weirdo.”
The Post stated that the 77-year-old former president became enraged on Sunday over allegations that Pratt, a packaging tycoon and guest of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, claimed Trump had given him private information about US nuclear submarines after the businessman proposed that Australia purchase its submarines from the US.
“The Failing New York Times story, leaked by Deranged Jack Smith and the Biden ‘Political Opponent Abuser’ DOJ, about a red-haired weirdo from Australia named Anthony Pratt is Fake News,” Trump said on his Truth Social platform. I never discussed submarines with him.
But since that’s what I’m all about—jobs, a great economy, low taxes, no inflation, energy dominance, strong borders, the absence of endless wars, low interest rates, and much more—I did talk to him about creating jobs in Ohio and Pennsylvania. Trump continued.
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According to Pratt, Trump informed him of the precise quantity of nuclear weapons carried by particular American ballistic missile submarines as well as the range at which they may approach Russian submarines undetected.
Additionally, according to Pratt, Trump once requested Melania Trump, the former first lady, to don a bikini and go around Mar-a-Lago “so all the other guys could get a look at what they were missing.” Melania allegedly lashed back, saying, “I’ll do that when you walk around with me in your bikini.”
The former president’s spokesperson ridiculed the assertion, claiming that it was derived from “sources which totally lack proper context and relevant information.”
According to the New York Times and the Australian “60 Minutes” programme, the billionaire also spoke with the FBI and the prosecutors, and there is tape of him talking about Trump and the submarines.
And The Post said:
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At least eighty people, including the billionaire, are thought by prosecutors to be potential strong witnesses against Trump in the extensive criminal case (40 counts) that Smith and the US Justice Department have brought against him for allegedly hoarding classified documents at his various residences after he left office. The trial is scheduled to start in May.
A gag order was placed on Trump earlier this month by U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan following his criticism of prosecutors, court employees, or their families. He was prohibited by the injunction from talking about them or mentioning possible witnesses against him.
In her Washington, D.C., courtroom on Friday, Chutkan temporarily halted the gag order she had earlier imposed against the 45th president “to give the parties more time to brief her on the former president’s request to pause the order while his appeal of it plays out,” CNN said.
According to the publication, Chutkan further stated that Trump would have until the following Saturday to respond to the government’s filing and that the Justice Department had until Wednesday to address his request for a lengthier suspension on the gag order. Trump’s lawyers requested Chutkan to halt the gag order in a 33-page document on Friday. Trump has already challenged the order to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals.