Appeals court pauses Trump 2020 election case gag order
The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell
Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW
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🗓️ 4 November 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Now it's time for the last word with Ali Velshi in for Lawrence good evening |
| 0:04.2 | Ali good evening Alex thank you and we shall talk to you next week have a good |
| 0:08.6 | weekend sure well all right like todayC. appeals court issued a stay on the gag order placed |
| 0:16.2 | on Donald Trump in the 2020 election case brought by Special Counsel Jack Smith. |
| 0:21.0 | A three-judge panel made up of two Obama appointees and a Biden |
| 0:24.8 | appointee have scheduled oral arguments on the gag order for November 20th. |
| 0:29.4 | But until then, Trump remains free to hurl verbal attacks against the Special Counsel and his staff. |
| 0:36.0 | Federal Judge Tanya Chutkin found that the gag order is necessary because Trump's verbal attacks on witnesses and others could inspire violence from his supporters, |
| 0:45.5 | which is exactly what happened on January the 6th. |
| 0:48.5 | We are so accustomed to following the day-to-day legal action and Trump's constant unhinged |
| 0:54.8 | social media rants about being persecuted by the justice system and the |
| 0:58.8 | Biden administration that we have become numb to just how abnormal this really is. |
| 1:05.0 | Ranting by fringe characters is normal in politics. |
| 1:10.0 | Donald Trump's not a fringe character. |
| 1:12.0 | He's a former president of the United States and the current front runner for the Republican presidential nomination |
| 1:17.6 | and he's trying to deep fake the country, or at least a majority of 2024 voters into believing that an event we all watched on live TV, |
| 1:27.0 | his effort to steal the 2020 election and stay in power, didn't happen. |
| 1:32.0 | Today there's new reporting about the location that Trump chose |
| 1:35.8 | to kick off his 2024 campaign, Waco, Texas. Now Waco was of course where a standoff between federal agents and a cult called the Branch |
| 1:45.5 | Dividians came to a tragic end when cult members set fire to the building rather than surrender |
| 1:51.5 | to the FBI. |
| 1:53.0 | Reporter Jonathan Carl writes in the Atlantic, |
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