Smith accuses Trump of trying to intimidate witnesses, including his former chief of staff, Mark Meadows.
Special counsel Jack Smith asked a federal judge to reimpose a gag order on former President Donald Trump in his election interference case in Washington, D.C.
Smith also wants the judge to modify Trump's conditions of release to prevent him from sending even indirect messages to witnesses.Trump has"capitalized" on the temporary suspension of his partial gag order to"send an unmistakable and threatening message to a foreseeable witness in this case," Smith wrote in a filing Wednesday night in U.S. District Court in Washington.
But she put it on hold last week while she considered Trump's request for a stay of the order, pending his appeal of the restrictions on his speech. "The defendant has not remotely been 'silenced,'" Smith wrote in Wednesday's filing."The only thing he cannot do is target certain individuals connected to the case."
"To the extent that the defendant's public message — directed to the Chief of Staff, with knowledge that it would reach him — is not already covered by his release conditions, it is an intentional end-run around them," he argued.
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