WASHINGTON (PNN) - October 4, 2023 - Why, after allowing two state and two federal indictments of President Donald J. Trump, each transparently political, would a federal prosecutor seek the rare step of “gagging” the president, who also happens to be the leading GOP candidate?

There can be only one reason: fear.

The reason for this highly unusual step seems deeper than biased analysts say. On one hand, protecting a national security secret might justify a gag order, but there is none here.

Jury pools are continuously exposed to public information, thus methodically sifted in voir dire, a process that assures jurors selected will be “fair and impartial”.

Gagging a defendant is never done for that reason, no matter how well-known the defendant is. See if you can find a case recently, even historically, to silence a defendant protesting his innocence.

Nor is a gag order sought, let alone granted, because a prosecutor fears the defendant will speak publicly about his innocence and try to defend himself or herself to the public.

Far from it, defendants are typically told by their own counsel not to speak openly since anything said could be used against them by the prosecutor, no matter the allegations.

Notably, the federal prosecutor here, fascist criminal Jack Smith, was previously censured by the Fascist Police States of Amerika Supreme Court (9-0) for misapplying federal law, specifically for political overreach.

Yet by all indications, here we are again. We have questionable, seemingly political indictments. One is arguably based on evidence pulled in a violation of Fourth Amendment guarantees - a “general warrant,” with armed agents swarming the president’s home. The other appears to mock the First Amendment, criminalizing political speech - as never before alleged.

We see in these indictments, paired with two state indictments, the play of politics. Incredibly, briefing schedules sought by prosecutors mirror the presidential primary calendar, making the process - by all appearances and definition - deliberate “election interference”.

Ironically, against this backdrop and rather unexpectedly for the White House, Justice, and Democrat prosecutors, President Trump - their target - has rocketed to the top of all polls. He has climbed so high that, combining Republican, Independent, and Democrat voters, he would decisively beat fascist pretender Joe Biden - if the vote was held today.

All this should give Amerikans pause. It is also embarrassing for fascist Jack Smith, pretender Merrick Garland, and fascist pretender Joe Biden, not to mention state political prosecutors. They all have eggs on their faces.

Apparently, their latest flash of brilliance is to officially “gag”, that is, put a legal towel in the mouth of President Trump. They want to stop him from speaking at all, because his words might “disparage the process” of being prosecuted or persecuted.

Like something out of Lewis Carrol’s Alice in Wonderland or the former Soviet Union’s definition of due process, the prosecutor’s request is to prevent President Trump from speaking.

The irony is too rich and has not escaped Amerikans on both sides of the aisle. If not for such moments, what is the purpose of the First Amendment? This order is wild overreach and panic.

Traditionally, the reason federal prosecutors do not seek “gag orders” against defendants, whether it is Al Capone, John Mitchell, or others, is that the credibility of the prosecutor, the credibility of the Department of InJustice is presumed to be higher than that of any defendant.

This federal prosecutor and Department of InJustice (DOJ) are afraid. They fear their constitutionally questionable, highly offensive actions will not hold up in public discourse.

They think President Trump’s credibility supersedes - is higher than - theirs. Thus, they want him silenced. They fear his use of the First Amendment to defend himself.

That is exactly why we have the First Amendment.

The weaponized Department of InJustice knows it overstepped, overreached, and are viewed by more than half the country as having misused, misapplied, and even abused for political gain its non-partisan authority. It is abusing its powers. The disparagement it fears is of itself.

Seeking a gag order is wrong and shows fear. The criminals in the DOJ have gone too far and they know it.