Disgraced former President Trump's lawyers on Friday filed another motion demanding DC Judge Tanya Chutkan to hold Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith and his team in contempt for continuing to work while the case is on hold during appeal is pretty freaking funny. A brief clip:
The prosecutors are fully aware and no doubt intend, their filing of politically charged invective, such as the recently filed motion in limine, induces substantial negative media coverage against President Trump, burdening him both personally (by falsely impugning his character) and professionally (by undermining his leading campaign for the 2024 Presidential Election). Worse, the prosecutors publicize their untruthful arguments knowing that any press coverage will be entirely one-sided without President Trump's substantive responses. Just as the Stay Order shields President Trump from the burdens of trial and discovery, it protects him from these "other burdens of litigation" as well. Although the prosecutors generically deny a political motivation, such words are empty. The prosecutors' filings, including the MIL, closely mirror the Biden Campaign's dishonest talking points – a fact the prosecutors do not and cannot deny.
Last week NBC's Ryan Reilly that the Trump team's actual game here is to get "Jack Smith" and "contempt" in a bunch of headlines, to which the media – us included – took the bait. Guilty, but the actual content of this whining is still just too freaking funny to pass up and speaks a lot to the confidence that Trump and his lawyers have that they're going to prevail on the appeal that they say is supposed to be prohibiting these motions from being filed to the court while the case is stayed.