Special counsel Jack Smith on Friday sought a gag order against Donald Trump in the classified documents case to keep the former president from talking about the raid on his Mar-a-Lago compound.
Special counsel Jack Smith speaks about an indictment of former President Donald Trump on Aug. 1, 2023, at a Department of Justice office in Washington. ** FILE **It comes after Mr. Trump claimed in an email to supporters this week that President Biden was “locked & loaded and ready to take me out” during the FBI’s raid of his Florida estate in August 2022.
The special counsel noted in the court filing that the raid was intentionally done when Mr. Trump and his family were not there and that the search was coordinated with the Secret Service. He added, “Whether a particular statement meets that test ‘must be determined by reference to the statement’s full context.’ But that condition would clearly prohibit further statements deceptively claiming that the agents involved in the execution of the search warrant were engaged in an effort to kill him, his family or Secret Service agents.”
“Those statements create a grossly misleading impression about the intentions and conduct of federal law enforcement agents — falsely suggesting that they were complicit in a plot to assassinate him — and expose those agents, some of whom will be witnesses at trial, to the risk of threats, violence and harassment,” Mr. Smith wrote.
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