YouTuber David “Dr. Dave” Coulter livestreamed while running errands on Friday addressing developments in both the on-going civil case and criminal case brought against him by Shade George “Audit Them” Ghanayem in the state of Illinois as a conditions of pretrial release order has circulated out of Cook County, Illinois.
The document is dated August 13, 2026, and bears the stamp of Cook County Clerk of the Circuit Court Mariyana T. Spyropoulos directs Coulter to surrender any firearms to local law enforcement within 48 hours, have no contact directly or indirectly with Ghanayem, stay away from Ghanayem’s home, work or school.
It also directs Coulter to make no social media posting, streaming or other media transmissions about Ghanayem. The document itself makes it clear that Coulter must comply with the rules of a stalking/no contact order.
The authenticity of the document, which was obtained through a source that had no direct connection to either man, can not be verified at this time as Cook County makes it nearly impossible to access criminal records online unless you are a registered member of the bar in the state of Illinois.
As Coulter has only appeared virtually for the criminal hearings, which he has confirmed an existence of, and has never been taken into custody, his records are not available through Vine or any of the other publicly available criminal records portals we normally access to verify charges.
That said, Coulter admitted in Thursday’s livestream that Wednesday’s court hearings in both his civil and criminal cases did not go well. He complained bitterly that his attorney in the civil case was unable to have Ghanayem’s civil protection order dismissed and that the case will continue.
He said that his attorney will l8ikely require another $1,000.00 payment to stay on the case and worried about money as he cannot afford an attorney in his criminal case, relying on a public defender for the criminal case.
Coulter also expressed his displeasure with his public defender as the public defender apparently had no knowledge of Coulter’s background. He became angered when the public defender could not answer if Coulter even had a prior criminal record, which he says he doesn’t, at the criminal hearing and that he loudly expressed his displeasure with the public defender in a breakout room during the virtual hearing.
The Ohio based YouTuber did not reveal to his audience the stipulation that he needed to surrender his firearms to police within 48 hours of the issuance of the conditions of pretrial release order. Instead, he said there were conditions that he was not revealing and implied that it was unlikely that the state of Illinois could enforce any conditions in the state of Ohio.
Legally, 18 U.S. Code §2265 subd. (a) states that any protection order that is issued by one State, Indian Tribe or territory shall be accorded full faith and credit by the court of another State, Indian Tribe or territory, and enforced by that court and law enforcement personnel. However, it only applies to the civil restraining order.
With that in mind, Coulter may have a point. His hearing was virtual, he lives in another state. It is unlikely that his local law enforcement knows about any orders or has the means to enforce it. While failure to comply with the orders may hurt him in the long run with the Illinois court, compliance will remain an issue.
Long time readers will remember a similar situation with verification from last month. Ghanayem revealed around the 4th of July weekend that there was a warrant for Coulter’s arrest. Cook county provided no help in verifying the existence of the warrant and Coulter loudly denied the existence of the warrant and Ghanayem refused to produce a copy of the warrant… but Coulter later appeared at what we presume to be a virtual arraignment last week that was apparently based on said warrant.
Ghanayem had previously obtained a civil protection order against Coulter. That protection order said that Coulter could not produce content in the United States about Ghanayem. Ghanayem informed YouTube of the order, which blocked the top level of two of Coulter’s many YouTube channels from those living in the United States.
YouTube did not, however, block the actual content from those channels. Direct URLs to Coulter’s videos still worked and Coulter’s continued to produce content about Ghanayem. On Friday, Coulter pledged to stop mentioning Ghanayem “on the advice of his attorney” then directly mentioned him twice over the course of the livestream.
Coulter himself shared that he was facing an undisclosed low level misdemeanor charge and was unlikely to face jail time if convicted. He pledged that he would devote time previously spent on videos devoted to Ghanayem to other first amendment auditors and cop watchers.
Ghanayem has yet to make a public statement on his channel but announced his virtual win over Coulter in postings in the ReallyCoolNews side chat during our second Lane Myers related marathon of the week on Thursday.
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