Note - I am not a lawyer. Someone who is needs to weigh in also...
The other night I posted a reply to someone about Trump's $200,000 bail he will have in the GA case. I couldn't understand why he would even need bail since he is surrounded by federal agents at all times - he ain't going anywhere. Then I heard about the terms of the bail... Number 4(e) specifically worries me.
(4) The Defendant shall perform no act to intimidate any person known to him or her to be a codefendant or witness in this case or to otherwise obstruct the administration of justice. Id. This shall include, but is not limited to, the following:
a. The Defendant shall make no direct or indirect threat of any nature against any codefendant;
b. The Defendant shall make no direct or indirect threat of any nature against any witness including, but not limited to, the individuals designated in the Indictment as an unindicated co-conspirators Individual 1 through Individual 30;
c. The Defendant shall make no direct or indirect threat of any nature against any victim;
d. The Defendant shall make no direct or indirect threat of any nature against the community or to any property in the community;
e. **The above shall include, but are not limited to, posts on social media or reposts of posts made by another individual on social media; **
The terms are wide open with the "but is not limited to". I think they are going to either frame him with social media posts, or just wait for a "mean tweet" and put him in jail. Worse yet - his team is asking for a 2026 trial date. If the judge suddenly and magically agrees and the DA also magically agrees then they are planning to put him away through the election.
Someone on his team needs to know this.
Here are his actual bail terms: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23921620/23sc188947-consent-order.pdf
Yes, these trials are exceptionally serious.
I know there's a lot of hopium going around, but the fact is he is a defendant in two federal trials and two state trials and will have to defend himself against dozens of federal charges.
What you point out are the terms of release Trump's lawyers negotiated with the Atlanta prosecutors. Which means these are terms Trump has agreed do as condition of release. So Trump needs to abide by these. He needs to listen to his lawyers and he doesn't have a good history of doing that.
If none of his tweets violate A through D he's OK. But defendants don't get to threaten witnesses and he's a defendant. That's reality. That's facts.
This is for the DC Jan 6 case, not the GA case. The judge will set the trial date next Monday. It's not going to be 2026. That's was just Trump's lawyers trolling the court.
If he violates his bail conditions in GA, the Georgia trial date which has not been set would be the issue.
These are serious cases. The GA case lists 30 unindicted co-conspirators. That means 30 possible witnesses.
Look what was just revealed in the FL case. One witness "Trump employee #4"
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-employee-4-retracts-testimony-changing-lawyers-implicates-former-president-prosecutors-say
He had testified he had no conversations about the security footage. The prosecutors then informed he was a target and might be indicted. He got a new lawyer. And retracted his testimony saying it was false. And that led to the superseding indictment and another charge against Trump and Nauta and the new defendant in the case.