Special Counsel Asks Judge For Gag Order In Trump Docs Case

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🗓️ 25 May 2024

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Special counsel’s office prosecutors have asked a federal judge in Florida to place a gag order on Donald Trump that would limit his ability to comment about law enforcement that searched his Mar-a-Lago resort. The request – a first in the classified documents mishandling case – comes after the former president has repeatedly and falsely criticized the FBI for having a policy in place around the use of deadly force during the search and seizure of government records at his resort in August 2022. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:44.4	Special Counsel Jack Smith is now seeking a gag order against Donald Trump in the classified
0:49.2	documents case.
0:50.5	Jack Smith is asking the judge to quote,
0:52.8	make clear that Trump may not make statements
0:55.7	that pose a significant, imminent, and foreseeable
0:58.8	danger to law enforcement agents
1:00.8	who are participating in the investigation and prosecution of this case.
1:05.4	So now why is the special counsel asking for this you might be asking?
1:09.0	Well it's because of what Donald Trump said this week.
1:11.9	When he falsely claimed that FBI agents who
1:14.1	searched Maralago were quote locked and loaded and authorized to shoot him.
1:19.1	He was misrepresenting the standard language and documents that the FBI says it uses routinely.
1:24.8	Here's by the way how a Triginal Merritt Garland explained it just yesterday.
1:30.0	Okay, on that one that allegation is false and it is extremely dangerous.
1:36.0	The document that is being referred to in the allegation is the Justice Department
1:42.2	standard policy limiting the use of force.
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