Why Trump’s 'obscenities' against 'innocent bystanders' must be met with 'discipline and severity'

03 October 2023

During Tuesday's episode of MSNBC's Deadline: White House, host Nicolle Wallace and Bloomberg Senior Executive Opinion Editor Tim O'Brien discussed the importance of Justice Arthur Engoron's issued gag order against ex-President Donald Trump following the MAGA hopeful's October 3 social media attack on the judge's clerk.

Soon after Trump attacked the clerk via Truth Social, he removed the post.

Wallace said, "Tim, Trump has attacked DOJ, FBI, Judge Chutkan, [Fulton County District Attorney] Fani Willis, the jurors. I mean, it never stops. This is an aggressive response to something he does as easily and readily as the rest of us sort of wake up and reach for coffee."

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O'Brien replied, "A long overdue response. You know, I think looking at this, this is — it's just another example of how utterly thuggish, obscene, and dangerous this buffoon can be when he's left to his own devices, and he's been doing it for years. Judge [Gonzalo] Curiel and the Trump University case, Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss in the Georgia voter fraud case — he shifts between people who can defend themselves and have the resources to — journalists like you and me — to average people who are innocent bystanders because at the end of the day he's a bully and he doesn't really care about the consequences of his own actions. And I think, you know, we're used to Donald Trump being obscene and being a thug and being dangerous, but we shouldn't accommodate his thuggishness or his obscenities because doing that is dangerous."

He continued, "And I think one of the things you're seeing now in his repeated challenges of institutions and the rule of law and the court system is people saying, 'Well, you know, he's a former president, it would be wrong to put him in jail if he violates his gag order.' This has come up in the January 6th case with Judge Chutkan. She has repeatedly told him his public statements could intimidate witnesses, could taint the jury pool, they will pervert the legal process. And I think at the end of the day you can only warn a defendant so many times and then you have to take action, and you either gag him as he was done today, or you may ultimately have to put him in jail. And I think the real test with Donald Trump is that he has to observe the same standards as everyone else not in spite of being an ex-president but because he's an ex-president."

Wallace then asked, "What does it say to you the he hurriedly took it down?"

O'Brien said, "Well, part of is just, his sort of belief that like children when they're corrected by parents they close their eyes and they pretend like it didn't happen — 'I didn't see it, it didn't happen.' So there's part of just the inner 7-year-old of Donald Trump. The other part is he recognized right away that he was called out being a bully, and then I think the third element it already had done its work. Once he puts it up, his tens of millions of followers on social media are going to disseminate it. So he can make up the excuse publicly — 'Well, I had second thoughts and I took it down.'

He continued, "You know, I think what's so extraordinary about this one, again, is she's a court clerk. She is relatively powerless, and we're in an era where people will come to peoples' homes. People will take action against anyone Donald Trump identifies as a threat to him, and he knows it. So the fact he went ahead and did it I think says something very deep about who he is, and I think institutions have to rise to this moment and check it every second of the way with as much discipline and severity as possible because we're heading down a bad path right now in the U.S."

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