Special Counsel Jack Smith has requested that a judge restrict former President Trump from making public statements potentially harmful to law enforcement, linked to his classified documents case. This follows Trump's claims that the Biden administration intended to use deadly force against him during a 2022 search at Mar-a-Lago. These allegations, which Trump has used to rally support, were described in a motion as dangerously misleading and a threat to the safety of law enforcement personnel and the integrity of the legal proceedings.
The request comes after Trump's recent felony conviction in a separate New York trial, marking him as the first former U.S. president to be convicted of a felony. The motion argues that Trump's speech, while generally protected, should be curtailed when it endangers others, drawing from his recent comments that distorted FBI's standard operational language into an assassination threat. Judge Aileen Cannon, overseeing the case, previously denied a similar request and has postponed the trial indefinitely for logistical reasons.
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