Special Persecutor Jack Smith has sought a “narrow” gag order against the defendant, former President Donald J. Trump, in the D.C. elections case. Smith cites in the gag order request that he is protecting the “integrity of the proceedings”. This is one of those times that one’s first response is, “Just what kind of effing clown show is this?”. Then, one remembers that we are a “late-stage Republic”, Stage Six by my count, and one sighs, “Of course.”.

Just in case you have a life and cannot devote your every second to watching your country commit to “unaliving” itself, the gag order request was filed with Judge Tanya Chutkan. The always on target Rolling Stone wrote:

U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan warned Donald Trump in August that she would not tolerate any actions that could be perceived as witness intimidation by the former president in his 2020 election meddling case. She’s now considering a motion for a partial gag-order on Trump’s public statements.

According to a Friday filing, Justice Department prosecutors are seeking “a narrow, well-defined restriction that is targeted at extrajudicial statements that present a serious and substantial danger of materially prejudicing this case.”…