Trump may have just broken bail conditions in every criminal case he's facing: expert

Donald Trump may have broken his bail conditions in every criminal case he’s been charged with, according to a former federal prosecutor Sunday.

Andrew Weissmann, who was one of special counsel Robert Mueller’s top deputies in the 2016 election investigation, said that by posting violent imagery of ahog-tied President Joe Biden, Trump may have put himself at risk of going to prison.

“A standard condition of being out on bail applies in New York and in the D.C. federal case and in the Georgia state case,” Weissmann told MSNBC’s Katie Phang Sunday.

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“That you not commit a crime while you are out on bail. You know this very well. In fact, I remember the D.C. case, being on air when the magistrate judge warned him that the most important condition for him was that he not commit a crime.

“Threatening the president of the United States is a crime, so the question would be the legal and factual question whether what he has engaged in with respect to posting the image of Joe Biden bound and gagged with what appears to be a bullet hole in his head constitutes that kind of threat.”

If it’s decided that posting the pictures does constitute a threat, bail could be repealed — which could mean that Trump is remanded into custody.

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Weissmann also discussed Trump’s recent social media attacks on the daughter of the judge in his hush money trial, due to start in New York on April 15.

He said that the former president has not broken a gag order that bans him from speaking about witnesses and jurors in the case because the judge and his family were not named in it.

But, Weissmann said, if the posts were found to constitute a threat, he could be found to have broken his bail conditions in that state.

‘The one thing that is clear,” he said, “is that [the judge] has every right to bring Donald Trump in to hold a hearing on what his intent was through his actions and obviously to tighten up dramatically that gag orders so that there is no threat, not just to the judge and his family members, but remember this has a spillover effect of a jury.”

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