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There were more fireworks in Judge Aileen Cannon’s Florida courtroom yesterday as special counsel Jack Smith’s team sought to impose a fresh gag order on Donald Trump in his classified documents case. Smith claimed that the gag order was needed to stop Trump from making «threatening comments» about law enforcement that might «endanger» FBI agents working on the case. Judge Cannon appeared skeptical of these claims for a variety of reasons, not least of which was the danger of infringing on Trump’s right to free speech. Jack Smith wants the gag order imposed as a condition of not locking Trump up in jail while awaiting trial. The judge won’t issue a ruling immediately and more hearings to consider various motions are scheduled this week.
A federal prosecutor in the classified documents case of Donald Trump clashed with the judge Monday as he faced skeptical questioning over a request to bar the former president from making threatening comments about law enforcement agents involved in the investigation.
Special counsel Jack Smith’s team is seeking to make as a condition of Trump’s freedom pending trial a prohibition on remarks that could endanger FBI agents participating in the case. Prosecutors say those restrictions are necessary after Trump falsely claimed last month that the FBI was prepared to kill him when it searched his Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago, for classified documents two years ago.
