Prosecutors at Donald Trump’s house confidential documents A Florida court on Friday asked a federal judge to block the former president from making public statements that pose a “significant, imminent and imminent danger to law enforcement agents” investigating and prosecuting the case.
Apply for U.S. District Judge Eileen Cannon, who is overseeing the case, is coming after the former president this week he claimed falsely In a Truth Social post, the Biden administration “authorized the FBI to use lethal (lethal) force” in a 2022 search for classified documents at Mar-a-Lago. The Trump campaign too the fundraising email claimed President Joe Biden’s Mar-a-Lago estate was “locked and loaded ready to take me out” while searching for classified documents.
Prosecutors in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s office argued in court filings that the agents acted “appropriately and professionally in accordance with the Department of Justice’s standard use of force policy” and that Trump’s allegations posed a threat to law enforcement agents.
“Trump’s repeated mischaracterizations of these facts in widely circulated messages endangered law enforcement officials involved in the investigation and prosecution of this case as an attempt to kill him, his family, and Secret Service agents, and threatened the integrity of those proceedings,” prosecutors wrote. . “The restriction prohibiting future similar statements should therefore be modified to prohibit future similar communications.”
He appeared to be referring to Trump and his campaign when making the allegations recently unsealed court documents 2022 is related to the search. The judge overseeing the case at the time asked how the former president could not have noticed that there were highly sensitive documents in his bedroom, the documents showed.
Trump was in New Jersey when the FBI searched Mar-a-Lago at his home in Palm Beach, Florida.
“As Trump is well aware,” prosecutors said in a filing Friday, the FBI “exercised extraordinary care to execute the search warrant smoothly and without unnecessary confrontation” and timed the search when the former president and his family would be away.
Prosecutors said Trump’s lawyers objected to their motion, as well as its timing.
Trump’s attorneys did not immediately respond to a request for comment Friday night, but a campaign spokesman said in an email that “Crooked Joe Biden and his Hacks and Thugs are trying to deprive President Trump and all American voters of their First Amendment rights. .”
“Repeated attempts to silence President Trump during the presidential campaign are clear attempts to interfere in the election,” campaign spokesman Stephen Cheung wrote. “They are a last-ditch effort by desperate Democratic Radicals running a losing campaign for a failed president.”
Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday rejected Trump’s allegation that the search warranted the use of deadly force “false” and “extremely dangerous,” during a press conference.
In a rare statement days ago, after Trump’s initial claims, the FBI said it was “following standard protocol in this search, as we do for all search warrants,” and that no further steps had been taken for Mar-a-Lago.
Trump has pleaded not guilty to charges that he willfully withheld national defense information about classified documents discovered at his Florida property after leaving office and that he ordered a Mar-a-Lago employee to delete the property’s security video. The trial was adjourned indefinitely.