Trump, the 2024 Republican presidential frontrunner, claimed Smith « wants to take away my rights under the First Amendment. »
Donald Trump on Friday attacked special counsel Jack Smith as a « deranged » prosecutor after his office sought restrictions on what the former president can say about his federal election interference case.
« He’s a deranged person, » he said of Smith, who led two federal investigations into Trump that have yielded criminal indictments.
Trump, who is the leading Republican candidate for the party’s 2024 presidential nomination, claimed in a speech Friday night that Smith « wants to take away my rights under the First Amendment. »
He « wants to take away my right to speak freely and openly, » Trump said at the conference of a conservative Christian women’s organization in Washington, D.C.
Trump has previously attacked Smith in similar terms, but his latest broadside came hours after Smith asked U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan for a partial gag order in the D.C. election case.
Trump is charged with four criminal counts in that case, which alleges he perpetrated multiple conspiracies to overturn his loss to President Joe Biden in the 2020 election.
