Federal prosecutors on Friday asked the judge overseeing the classified documents case against Donald Trump to bar the former president from making public statements that “pose a significant, immediate and foreseeable risk to law enforcement” involved in the prosecution.
The request was made to U.S. District Judge Eileen Cannon earlier this week by FBI agents. Who searched the Mar-a-Lago property? By August 2022, he was “given permission to shoot me” and “locked down and ready to take me out and put my family in danger.”
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee cited the release of court documents showing that the FBI followed its standard use-of-force policy during the search process, which prohibits the use of deadly force unless the officer conducting the search had a reasonable belief that: “When the object of such force creates an imminent risk of death or serious bodily injury to the officer or any other person.”
This policy is routine and is intended to limit the use of force during searches. Prosecutors pointed out that this search was intentionally conducted in collaboration with the Secret Service while President Trump and his family were away. No force was used.
Prosecutors on Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team said in a court filing late Friday that Trump’s statements falsely implying that federal agents “were involved in a plot to assassinate him” expose law enforcement. Prosecutors said some of them would be called as witnesses at his trial. “There is a risk of threats, violence and harassment.”
“President Trump repeatedly mischaracterized these facts in widely circulated messages as an attempt to murder himself, his family, and Secret Service agents, endangering the law enforcement officers involved in the investigation and prosecution of this case and jeopardizing the integrity of the proceedings,” prosecutors said. “He threatened,” he said. Cannon, nominated by Trump.
“Restrictions prohibiting similar speech in the future do not restrict lawful speech,” they said.
The defense opposed the government’s request, prosecutors said. Trump’s attorney did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment Friday night.
Earlier this week, Attorney General Merrick Garland called Trump’s claims “extremely dangerous.” Garland pointed out that the document Trump was referring to was a standard policy limiting the use of force that was also used in the consensual search of President Joe Biden’s home as part of the investigation into the Democratic Party’s handling of classified documents.
erase faces dozens of felonies Accusing him of illegally stockpiling documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, he classified documents he took after leaving the White House in 2021 and thwarted FBI efforts to retrieve them. He pleaded not guilty and denied the crime.
It is one of four criminal cases Trump is facing as he seeks to reclaim the White House. New York’s mutiny prosecution continuesIt is unclear whether any of the remaining three will go to trial before the election.
