The possible arrest of former US President Donald Trump for violating his court-imposed gag order would trigger rioting and deal a potentially fatal blow to President Joe Biden’s re-election chances, CNN analyst Mark Preston warned on Friday.
Trump is currently on trial in Manhattan for allegedly misreporting ‘hush-money’ payments made to porn star Stormy Daniels. Since last month, he has been forbidden from making public statements about Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg or the jurors working on the case, and from uttering anything that could interfere with the work of the court.
Nevertheless, the former president has spoken to reporters outside the Manhattan courthouse every day this week, and Bragg’s team claims that he has already violated this gag order at least seven times. In one instance, Trump took to his Truth Social platform on Wednesday to share a quote from Fox News host Jesse Watters, who claimed that “undercover liberal activists” were “lying to the judge in order to get on the Trump jury.”
However, if the trial judge were to place Trump in a holding cell “for a few hours,” the end result would be “civil unrest across the country, certainly in some cities,” Preston said in a panel discussion with CNN host Jim Acosta.
“And two, politically, if I’m the Biden campaign, I don’t want to necessarily see him in jail, because that’s just going to get people more inflamed and more fired up,” he added.
The judge, Jaun Merchan, will hear arguments from the prosecution on Trump’s alleged violations of the gag order on Tuesday.
“People are allowed to speak about me, and I have a gag order, just to show you how much more unfair it is,” Trump said outside the courthouse on Friday. The former president blasted the order as unconstitutional, telling reporters that it “has to come off.”
Trump is the presumptive Republican nominee to challenge Biden in November’s presidential election. Despite the ongoing trial in Manhattan and three other criminal cases in the works, he is currently leading the incumbent in most polls by between one and ten points.
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Trump Derangement Syndrome
Goes both ways.
Rioting may be a bit optimistic.
Yep, just a bit. I predict zero grassroots rioting.
Don’t worry, Antifa and BLM will be rioting in the streets again this summer, but not for freedom or Trump, but the idiots will be rioting for a socialist dictatorship, and they will be the first ones eliminated when it comes. They will be to dangerous to have around they are the ones that took action. Can’t have that in a dictatorship.
“I Am Kyle Rittenhouse”
That will send a message.
Let that go out as a rallying cry.
At least the pedos will stay home…..
Rioting is for fools.
Assassinations more likely..
They said the same thing if Trump was to be charged and put on trial. In reality, people just complained and shrugged.
I know it’s tempting to get drawn into this stuff but, honestly, it’s all theater IMO. The two camps are the anodes and the cathodes; these creeps are true energy harvesters.
RT usually has good stories, but RT way over estimates US citizens today. They have been kicked in the teeth the last 4 years, half of them love it and support it and the other half does nothing. Why? Because no leader with political power, money and celebrity has stepped forward. It has to be someone like that because they will instantly squash the little guy. Where are the lawyers rallying for Trump’s rights? Where are the Union leaders calling for national strikes? Where are the military leaders that love and support the Constitution they took an oath to? Where are the business leaders seeing small businesses being decimated by government control? Nowhere.
And where is his “party” the GOP ?
“Trump arrest would cause nationwide ‘civil unrest’
Finally something useful from the Donald…
Why is “civil unrest” such a bad thing ?
I say LOCK HIM UP and lets find out.
We’ll know for certain we are a banana republic if our Deep State overlords
“Lock Him Up” before the election.
Then The Civil War II Revolution will commence.
Rioting?!
hahahaha!!
Are there even any Trumptards milling about near the courthouse, picket signs in hand, concerned for their dear leader?
No one could give a shit less about the situation, and Trump is frittering away his fortune defending against this shit show.
Wake me up when they actually cuff him- the perp walk will be a real made for TV masterpiece.
Friendo, we America First types don’t “mill around courthouses with picket signs in hand.” We have lives…But when they cuff the opposition leader and “perp walk” him to remove him as a choice…our choice will be made for us. Your shitty epithet for ordinary Americans as “Trumptards” is inexcusable. We are just plain old Americans fed up with everything statist. You mistake the man for the movement. Like the fucks running the kangaroo courts. It is not about DJT, it’s about America as founded. “Join Or Die”, as the old Gasden flag admonished. You have a choice to make, Friendo. The state as your master, or yourself.
Trump won’t live long enough to take office on January 20. He won’t be John Kennedy Part 2. It won’t be a jail house shiv or a terrible accident. I predict a sudden heart attack. Completely natural for a man his age.
Then explain why the propaganda apparatus has spent 4 years puffing up Trump in front of the majority in this country? Every single “attack” against Trump has been for the purpose of building his support with the citizens.
They’ve had those heart attack guns since at least the seventies.
trump is the deepest of deep state. his life is not even close to being in danger.
Idiots believe our president is elected and makes decisions. Idiots believe in trump or biden, they are the same thing. Irrelevant.
The author has way to much faith in the Murcan Publk.
Its pantomime, really bad pantomime.
Theatre pantomime is funny, this shyte is not and they are not just rubbing your face into anymore, they’re making you eat it too.
Will there be rioting or massive protests… lol sure…
i wouldn’t give 2 flips if the satanic jewshit were thrown in jail. i hope he dies there.
You have nothing to worry about then.
Biden is in no danger of that at all.
sheeple didn’t riot over being forced to shoot up an untested genetic serum. they aren’t gonna do diddly-squat when the 3am vote reelects biden.
Not going to happen. You will not see anything widespread until something impacts day to day living. Think food, water, shelter, and energy. Especially if government mandates something drastic. Why do think we are seeing all these incremental changes/control of food, and energy. By the time you notice the impact to you it will be too late.