welcome to the beat. i m ari melber joining you live on this monday to start the week and the holiday. donald trump hit with brand new restrictions hit with his government trial and now under court order blocking him from discussing trial evidence in public this is a kind of a brush back it limits donald trump s ability, at least the way the rules are set, to respond to statements that may also quite bother him new condemnations coming from former trump administration officials themselves, shredding the legal and other denials that donald trump has made. i don t need to read the indictment or believe its allegations are true, although i m pretty confident they are. it was very disturbing. based on his actions, if proven true, no. it s irresponsible actions that places our nation at risk. the fact of the matter is he is a consummate narcissist and he constantly engages in reckless conduct those are just some of the brutal rebukes and experienced factual takes from pe
national security experience reminding people of the underlying stakes of these alleged crimes as for restrictions, it means trump and his co-defendant cannot review trial evidence without supervision and without a lawyer there we saw trump under the momentary supervision under arraignment. he is a citizen defendant. he can only look at that evidence under the direct su supervision of direct counsel or a member of direct counsel s staff. donald trump is not supposed to discuss this evidence in public, let alone post on social media, sometimes factually leaking his own indictment and often packed with lies, like the new york case where he s lied about the case and people investigating him. the case involves donald trump boasting about war plans to attack iran. that s one of the pieces of the indictment that made waves over the last week or would that is apparently on tape, including the admission that