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Federal prosecutors on Friday night time requested the judge overseeing former President Donald J. Trump’s categorized paperwork case to bar him from making any statements that may endanger regulation enforcement brokers concerned within the proceedings.
Prosecutors mentioned Mr. Trump had lately made “grossly deceptive” assertions in regards to the F.B.I.’s search of Mar-a-Lago, his non-public membership and residence in Florida, two years in the past. The request got here simply days after the previous president falsely steered that the F.B.I. had been approved to shoot him when brokers descended on Mar-a-Lago in August 2022 and found greater than 100 categorized paperwork whereas executing a court-approved search warrant.
In a social media publish on Tuesday, Mr. Trump falsely claimed that President Biden “approved the FBI to make use of lethal (deadly) pressure” throughout the search.
Mr. Trump’s publish was a response to an F.B.I. operational plan for the Mar-a-Lago search that was unsealed on Tuesday as a part of a authorized movement filed by Mr. Trump’s legal professionals. The plan contained a boilerplate reference to deadly pressure being approved as a part of the search, which prosecutors mentioned Mr. Trump had distorted.
“As Trump is nicely conscious, the F.B.I. took extraordinary care to execute the search warrant unobtrusively and with out unnecessary confrontation,” prosecutors wrote in a movement to Judge Aileen M. Cannon, who’s overseeing the case.
“They scheduled the search of Mar-a-Lago for a time when he and his household could be away,” the prosecutor added. “They deliberate to coordinate with Trump’s lawyer, Secret Service brokers and Mar-a-Lago workers earlier than and throughout the execution of the warrant; they usually deliberate for contingencies — which, the truth is, by no means got here to go — about with whom to speak if Trump have been to reach on the scene.”
The request to Judge Cannon was the primary time that prosecutors have sought to limit Mr. Trump’s public statements within the case.
Prosecutors didn’t search to impose a gag order on Mr. Trump, however as an alternative requested Judge Cannon to revise his circumstances of launch to forbid him from making any public feedback “that pose a major, imminent and foreseeable hazard to regulation enforcement brokers collaborating within the investigation.”
