Trump Is Running Deranged TV Ads Attacking Georgia Prosecutor Who Will Indict Him

Donald Trump's campaign has been running ads attacking Fulton County prosecutor Fani Willis in Atlanta and other areas for the past week. The ads have also attacked the other prosecutors that are going after him. He is using campaign money to shift public opinion about his indictments and prosecutions, and that might not be 100% legal. Furthermore, these attack ads are only going to lead to gag orders and possible contempt charges, as Farron Cousins explains.

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In what might be one of the most egregious violations of campaign finance laws and possibly even court orders. Donald Trump's campaign has been running for the last week, ads, television ads. I'm not talking about social media. They have been running ads on local television in Atlanta, you know, Fulton County, where Fannie Willis is indicting him in New York City, where DA Alvin Bragg has indicted him. And in Washington DC where the Department of Justice has indicted him, Donald Trump is basically running these ads to attack the prosecutors, accusing them of things from their past that of course never happened, talking about, oh, they've bungled cases before. They've had prosecutorial missteps, they've had behavior pro, like all these horrible things that are completely untrue about these prosecutors. But Trump is paying from his campaign to put these ads on people's televisions. Now, like I said, there's two issues here.

One is the possible violation of law with regard to the trials themselves. No other client, no other defendant would be able to have the kind of money to go out there knowing, Hey, I've been indicted. I'm gonna have a trial in New York. What if I just spent money running ads on TV to taint the potential jury pool? Because that's what this is, in my opinion, a hundred percent attempting to sway public opinion because the public will be the one sitting on that jury. Every jurisdiction where this is happening should immediately outlaw these kinds of ads. The judges need to step in, issue immediate sanctions, and yes, freeze his campaign funds, because that is what he's using to fund these ads. And that's where it gets into the campaign finance law violations. Now, we have very relaxed, if you would say it that way. Campaign finance law is obviously here in the United States, you can spend your super PAC money on virtually anything as long as it's political. See, there is some, there are, excuse me, some requirements, like it has to be political. It has to be to an advance, an idea, an agenda, or a candidate. But if you're spending this money to attack a prosecution against you, even if you are a candidate, even if you try to phrase it as, this is election interference with me, your favorite candidate, you are still treading that fine line on whether or not this kind of expenditure is legal.

So I think the, uh, federal Elections Commission needs to investigate this immediately. The campaign has been very open. They're like, yes, we're paying for the ads. It's a one minute ad. We're running it here, we're running it there. We're about to actually start running it nationally. They say, we're gonna continue attacking the prosecutors. So the f e C needs to get on top of this immediately. Secondly, every judge overseeing any of these cases needs to slap an immediate gag order on Donald Trump that says, if you attack the judge, the prosecutor, the witnesses, or if you attempt to taint the jury pool with your speeches, your ads, or any other campaign or personal activities, I will hold you in contempt. And they should set a set jail sentence for that. You know, if you do it again, three days in county, that's what they could do.

They have the power to do that. Like, there's literally nothing that's stopping the judges from doing that other than of course, the fear of what Trump's subjects will do. And I get it. That is a real fear. We, we saw it play out this past week. So they're in a horrible position to have to do this, but they do have to do this. And hopefully, you know, Fannie Willis, when, when, when those indictments do come down, if Trump is still doing this, hopefully she includes something in there about this, hopefully the initial judge will immediately issue that gag order. We know that judge, uh, McBurney who's been overseeing this has, you know, not been afraid to smack down Trump. Same thing with judge, uh, Sukin. And of course, same thing with the judge up in Manhattan, whose name unfortunately escapes me at the moment.