Donald Trump arrest: Roger Stone says gag order idea shows Trump’s ‘effectiveness as counterpuncher’
Heather Hamilton
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Longtime GOP operative Roger Stone said the idea of placing former President Donald Trump under a gag order following his Tuesday arraignment was a nod to just how effective he is at rebounding from attacks.
“The idea that they might gag Donald Trump is really a testimony to his effectiveness as a counterpuncher,” Stone told Fox News’s Tucker Carlson. “He’s used social media and his interviews to very effectively question the falsity of these charges, question the political motivations and funding of District Attorney Alvin Bragg, and question the bias of this judge.”
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Trump is slated to be arraigned Tuesday afternoon on multiple criminal charges connected to alleged hush money payments made to porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016. Speculation that a gag order, which could carry fines and even prison time, has swirled.
“Not only do I think the gag order would be unconstitutional, nowhere does it say you lose your free speech rights if you’re charged with a crime,” Stone said. “But more importantly, it’s election interference. He is a legal candidate for the 2024 Republican nomination.”
“He’s leading by closer to 40 points in the polls. This is a very clear effort to try to break his momentum,” Stone continued. “You can see in the polls and in the money that he is raising that the stronger they hit him, the harder they hit him, the more his support grows. So, I think canceling him now, gagging him now, is a reaction to the way he has rebounded, and actually benefitted, from what is a naked partisan attack against him.”
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Stone was himself placed under a gag order before Trump commuted a 40-month sentence against him for alleged obstruction of congressional inquiries into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election. The former president then later bumped that up to a full pardon.
“For those who say the gag order would be narrow, it would only relate to these charges,” Stone added. “These charges are politically motivated. This is part of the campaign against Donald Trump.”