'They've Taken Away My Right to Speak,' Trump Says While Ranting to Reporters

The former president got very mad about his inability attack witnesses and jurors before reportedly dozing off in court again

Donald Trump claimed on Friday that he has been stripped of his constitutional right to speak to the press … while ranting to a giant gaggle of reporters.

The former president took time before entering court in his criminal hush money trial to once again complain about a gag order barring him from attacking witnesses, prosecutors, court staff, and jurors involved in the case.

“The gag order has to come off. People are allowed to speak about me and I have a gag order,” Trump said. “They are taking away my constitutional rights to speak, and that includes speaking to you. I have a lot to say to you, and I am not allowed to say it — and I’m the only one. Everyone else can say whatever they want about me. They can say anything they want, they can continue to make up lies […] But I’m not allowed to speak. I want to speak to the press and everybody else about it. So why am I gagged?”

Buffalox,

Corrected headline: Trump complains he cannot baselessly slander and instigate violence against innocent people connected to his court cases.
Meanwhile he is still allowed to do it against everybody else.

profdc9,

If only they would.

Canopyflyer,

You DO have the right to speak.

What you lack is the capacity. At least for productive thoughtful speech.

InternetUser2012,

Awww, the broke bitch baby snowflake is crying that he has to follow the law… Fuck this asswipe, and any dirt bag that votes for him.

acockworkorange,

gaggle /găg′əl/ noun

  1. A flock of geese.
  2. A cluster or group.
  3. A flock of wild geese, especially when on the ground.

Well done.

bradorsomething,

Apparently a group of competent reporters is called a mainstream, or else maga people are just idiots parroting complaints. I mean they could be idiots… although some, I’m sure, are good people.

TokenBoomer,

Sir, this is a society.

dumbass,
@dumbass@leminal.space avatar

That family is so pro free speech, untill you use that free speech to ask one of them who gets the first line of coke at the family get together? Or is it a trough like situation where you all get to go?

tiefling,

It’s more like the human centipede but they snort it off each other’s assholes. Trump somehow always ends up behind Ivanka.

ProgrammingSocks,

Rights are granted to you as long as you follow the law that grants you them. Once you break the law certain rights can and will be taken away from you because you are no longer following the contract that allows you to have them.

There are certain inalienable human rights that every person should have. Slandering people and rallying up your cultists to attack those people is NOT one of them.

phoenixz,

they’ve taken away my right to threateny opponents and send my cronies after their families

Oh yes, what a loss. Fuck Trump

p5yk0t1km1r4ge,
@p5yk0t1km1r4ge@lemmy.world avatar

Oh no :(

Anyway

Grant_M,
@Grant_M@lemmy.ca avatar

They have not, however, taken away your right to shit your pants.

Rentlar,

Oh no, his right to verbally attack people involved in the court case he is the defendant of has been taken away!

Trump being forced to have to sit quietly in company of people who aren’t yes-men and stooges is the tiniest bit of relief I get from 8 years of having to put up with this guy in our news.

carl_dungeon,

Someone should take a shit down his throat because he’s been shitting in everyone’s ears for a decade

Corkyskog,

Is he still on Twitter? I feel like people should be harassing him to see if they can break him

carl_dungeon,

No man, it’s all truth social- you know, the bigliest must truthtedy free speech platform with the highest stocks

falk1856,

If only

Mastengwe,

He has far more right to speak than any of us would in the same situations. That clown has violated every gag order he’s been given with zero repercussions.

chuckleslord,

That’s patently untrue. They threatened to give him a slap on the wrist. After he only broke the gag order three times!

/s

CharlesDarwin,
@CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world avatar

Captain Snowflake is always whining about something, and always has. Ever since at least the 80s. The fact that so many people think he’s the ideal of manhood is laughable.

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