Trump's social media attacks bring warnings of potential legal consequences

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'If he was Donald Smith, he would be in jail right now,' said Gene Rossi, a former federal prosecutor.

revealed that the former vice president kept contemporaneous notes about his conversations with Trump.

"Your client's defense is supposed to happen in this courtroom, not on the internet," she said. More"inflammatory" statements about the case would increase her urgency in bringing the case to trial to protect the pool of prospective jurors, the judge said. "If he was Donald Smith, he would be in jail right now," said Gene Rossi, a former federal prosecutor."The argument that we're treating him unfairly is baloney."

While Trump can publicly declare his innocence and denounce the charges against him as"baloney," he can't"bash a witness that's been listed. He doesn't have the right to go to a rally and read grand jury transcripts. He doesn't have that right, period," Rossi said.

 

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