It is Friday night and we are on the verge of finding out the answer to a question that has been hanging over this country for eight years.

Can anyone or anything stop Donald Trump from lying to the American public.

We are learning new details about a request from Special Counsel Jack Smith who is asking

a DC federal court to restrict Trump's public comments

about that case ahead of the trial, which is scheduled for March 4th of next year.

Smith's team writes in this filing,

since the grand jury returned an indictment in this case,

the defendant has repeatedly and widely disseminated

public statements attacking the citizens

of the District of Columbia, the court, prosecutors, and. the these proceedings and prejudice the jury pool.

Put simply, those involved in the criminal justice process

who read and hear the defendant's disparaging

and inflammatory messages from court personnel

to prosecutors to witnesses to potential jurors

may reasonably fear that they could be the next targets of the defendant's

attacks. The special counsel then goes on to cite a laundry list of Trump's social media

posts and public comments, disparaging anyone and anything related to his various

indictments. The prosecution cites Trump's vague but ominous all-caps threat the day after his arraignment

warning, if you go after me, I'm coming after you.

For the record, Trump's campaign claimed that that statement was about his political opponents.

Okay.

Prosecutors cite Trump's various attacks on Judge Tanya Chuckkin herself the the person overseeing Trump's 2020 election case in federal

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