{"id":28580,"date":"2018-03-11T22:38:27","date_gmt":"2018-03-11T22:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28580"},"modified":"2018-03-11T22:38:27","modified_gmt":"2018-03-11T22:38:27","slug":"prior-restraint-no-can-do-mr-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28580","title":{"rendered":"Prior restraint? No can do, Mr. President"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n

Now we have this: Reports have surfaced that Donald Trump’s legal team is researching ways to prevent “60 Minutes” from broadcasting an interview with the porn queen with whom the president allegedly had an affair in 2006.<\/p>\n

Let’s see. What do we make of that?<\/p>\n

I believe it tells me that there’s something to all this baloney about a six-figure sum of money being paid to keep the porn queen quiet.<\/p>\n

The president denies that he had an affair with this woman, who’s making quite a bit of hay of late over the publicity that has swarmed all over her — and the president. The affair allegedly occurred about a year after Trump married his third wife, Melania, and right after his wife gave birth to the couple’s son.<\/p>\n

The porn queen\/adult film producer and director has filed a lawsuit claiming that the non-disclosure agreement is null and void because Trump never signed it. He didn’t even sign it using an alias he was using at the time … sheesh! <\/em><\/p>\n

Thus, she contends, she is able to talk all she wants about whether she had an affair with the man who would become president of the United States, despite being paid $130,000 in hush money by Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen.<\/p>\n

One more thing.<\/p>\n

The First Amendment protects a “free press.” In the 21st century, that also includes broadcast media. The U.S. Constitution prevents government from interfering in the media’s effort to do its job.<\/p>\n

I shall add that Trump is always the president. He is the head of government. He cannot compartmentalize these issues.<\/p>\n

Prior restraint of the media, Mr. President, is not an option.<\/p>\n\n

Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now we have this: Reports have surfaced that Donald Trump’s legal team is researching ways to prevent “60 Minutes” from broadcasting an interview with the porn queen with whom the president allegedly had an affair in 2006. Let’s see. What do we make of that? I believe it tells me that there’s something to all … Continue reading Prior restraint? No can do, Mr. President<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[93,1424,1738,7645,7555,5043],"class_list":["post-28580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-60-minutes","tag-donald-trump","tag-first-amendment","tag-prior-restraint","tag-stormy-daniels","tag-us-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28581,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28580\/revisions\/28581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}