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EX-RNC CHAIR CALLS FOR DONALD TRUMP TO BE THROWN IN JAIL

Nov 19, 2023 at 6:15 PM EST


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Michael Steele, the former chairman of the Republican National Committee (RNC),
called for former President Donald Trump to be thrown in jail on Saturday over
his repeated attacks on judges and court staff in his numerous ongoing court
cases.

Trump, who is the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination,
continues to face various legal troubles with trials at both the state and
federal level, and has been civilly sued by New York Attorney General Letitia
James for $250 million. In her lawsuit, James alleges that Trump, his adult
sons, and top executives at The Trump Organization, conspired to increase his
net worth by billions of dollars on financial statements provided to banks and
insurers to make deals and secure loans.

In addition, the former president has been indicted in four separate cases: two
brought by Department of Justice's (DOJ) special counsel Jack Smith, one by the
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, and another from Fulton County District
Attorney Fani Willis in Georgia. Trump has denied any wrongdoing and has called
the trials politically motivated. However, he has made repeated attacks on
judges and court staff often taking to Truth Social to voice his stance, which
has cost him to be issued gag orders.



Although Trump was issued a gag order on October 3 in his New York civil fraud
trial by Judge Arthur Engoron, who is overseeing the case, that barred him from
commenting about court personnel after he disparaged a law clerk on Truth
Social, it was temporarily lifted Thursday by an appellate judge who raised free
speech concerns.

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Former President Donald Trump speaks to a crowd on Saturday in Fort Dodge, Iowa.
Michael Steele, the former chairman of the Republican National Committee, called
for Trump to be thrown in jail on Saturday over his repeated attacks on judges
and court staff in his numerous ongoing court cases. Jim Vondruska/Getty Images

During Saturday's episode of MSNBC's Ayman, host Ayman Mohyeldin discussed
Trump's attacks on court staff and asked Steele to discuss the danger of these
attacks and the lifted gag order.


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"It is enormously dangerous, I am shocked that we have allowed this to get this
far. I'm just going to use my best analysis that I can give you at this point on
this situation with Trump, and the attacks on the judges. Put his a** in jail.
That's how you end it. That's how it stops," Steele said.

The former RNC chair added: "People will be mad, they will be upset. But there
is no other person on this planet, certainly not in this country, who would be
given the kind of grace that Donald Trump has been given to run his mouth the
way he has—attacking clerks, attacking judges, attacking the prosecutors
personally; threatening them."

Steele continued: "We've shown the evidence when he does that how his base
responds. And so the system is getting pulverized from within by Trump, and is
being pressed to the umpteenth corner it can go in trying to appease him, and
allow him to be free while he is still behaving this way."



Newsweek has reached out to the Michael Steele Network and Trump via email for
comment.

Meanwhile, Judge Tanya Chutkan who is overseeing Trump's federal case regarding
his alleged attempt to overturn the 2020 election results, reimposed a narrow
gag order last month that restricts what Trump can say about Smith's team and
potential witnesses in the case.

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Chutkan had originally lifted the gag order to allow Trump's lawyers time to
prove why the former president's comments should not be restricted ahead of the
federal trial, which is scheduled to begin in March 2024. Trump and his legal
team have frequently argued that a gag order against a presidential candidate
while they are embarking on a White House campaign is a violation of his First
Amendment rights.



In a post on Truth Social following the decision, Trump criticized Chutkan,
suggesting she should recuse herself from the case.



"I have just learned that the very Biased, Trump Hating Judge in D.C., who
should have RECUSED herself due to her blatant and open loathing of your
favorite President, ME, has reimposed a GAG ORDER which will put me at a
disadvantage against my prosecutorial and political opponents," he wrote on
Truth Social.

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This is not the first time Trump's attacks have been under fire as some were
concerned what the former president's supporters would do after he reposted to
his Truth Social account on Tuesday a message calling for a citizen's arrest of
Engoron and James.

Former U.S Attorney Barbara McQuade previously told Newsweek in a statement that
this move is "incredibly reckless" of Trump, explaining that someone can view
this post and take violent action against James and Engoron.

"Trump's statement is incredibly reckless in light of the history of people
responding to his dangerous rhetoric. Someone could take violent action in
response," McQuade said.



Court system lawyer Lisa Evans said Engoron and his staff have received hundreds
of threatening and antisemitic phone calls and letters since the trial began in
October, the Associated Press reported Thursday. Evans blamed Trump's comments
about Engoron and his clerk, Allison Greenfield, for amplifying his supporters'
anger toward them.

However on Thursday, a state intermediate appeals court, headed by Judge David
Friedman, granted a temporary stay on Engoron's gag order effectively suspending
it due to the "constitutional and statutory rights at issue." The judge also
questioned Engoron's authority to police what Trump says outside the courtroom.

Trump's lawyer, Christopher Kise, applauded the temporary stay as the "right
decision."



Friedman has "allowed President Trump to take full advantage of his
constitutional First Amendment rights to talk about bias in his own trial, what
he's seeing and witnessing in his own trial — which, frankly, everyone needs to
see," Kise said, according to the AP.

Newsweek has reached out to Kise via email for comment.


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ABOUT THE WRITER

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Natalie Venegas is a Weekend Reporter at Newsweek based in New York. Her focus
is reporting on education, social justice issues, healthcare, crime and politics
while specializing on marginalized and underrepresented communities. Before
joining Newsweek in 2023, Natalie worked with news publications including
Adweek, Al Día and Austin Monthly Magazine. She is a graduate of the University
of Texas at Austin with a bachelor's in journalism. You can get in touch with
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