Potentially violates both of these conditions from the GA bond conditions.
The Defendant shall make no direct or indirect threat of any nature against any codefendant;
The Defendant shall not communicate in any way, directly or indirectly, about the facts of this case with any person known to him to be a codefendant in this case except through his or her counsel.
I’m not an attorney, but I think the judge can either fine the Attourney, take the bond money and make Trump repost to stay out of jail, or just revoke bond and put him in jail.
None of those are legitimate options.
Trump’s attorneys are not responsible for his actions. The bond posted - through a bail bondsman, by the way - would be returned if Trump was detained pending trial. (Returned to the bail bond office, not to Trump. His payment of 10% of his bond amount is the fee paid to the bail bondsman.)
An appropriate response from the Court would be to call Trump into a hearing, address his inflammatory, jury-pool-polluting, and tampering public statements, followed by a Consequence. Ideally, said Consequence should be severe enough to prevent Trump from making future statements of the kind he has made to date. Because it appears that there is no “bottom” to Trump’s potential actions, the only sure way to prevent his continuing to make these kinds of public statement is to detain him.
Detention pending trial will not be the first consequence the Court gives. If anything happens at all, the first consequence will unfortunately be a stern talking to and a furrowed brow. The second consequence (because we know Trump will say more things which should prompt a second, third, fourth consequence) would be a fine. And we all know that if the punishment is a fine, it’s only illegal for poor people. The third consequence would be … another fine. The fourth consequence would be … another fine. Et cetera.
It will never get to the point where Trump is jailed for contempt (in the “one to three days’” timeframe). It will never get to the point where Trump is detained pending trial.
Because it’s only illegal if poor people do it.
Yeah Jack Smith is gonna rub his hands in anticipation of the next motion for stricter bond conditions for Trump.
What trump doesn’t realize: SBF did the same thing and took it to far, he now has bond revoked and has to prepare the case behind bars which costs him a lot of time and resources and probably sanity as well. Trump will end exactly at the same spot if he continues.
I don’t think it violates either, technically, but still a scummy thing to do, and totally not what an innocent man would say.
This is about as blatant as you can get with witness tampering.
Agree 100% but is it witness tampering if Meadows is also charged in the same case?
Trump is telegraphing to Meadows that Meadows should not flip. He is acting to prevent Meadows from becoming a witness against him. That’s tampering.
At some point Meadows will get a death threat from some idiot that explicitly links it to Trump’s remarks. The question is if that is brought forward or kept under wraps. If they arrest that person and charge them they would probably happily yell “I did what Trump said to do and I’d do it again” in court. That might lead to consequences for Trump but it’s a lot to chain together and nothing moves quickly here.
If you were innocent and honest, the only thing you would say and hope for is that all witnesses tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
Anyone who has to threaten witnesses to maintain their loyalty is a literal crime boss.
Witness tampering
Revoke bail.
