Jack Smith unveils tranche of evidence to support Trump gag order
By
Ashley Oliver
June 27, 2024 12:35 pm
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Special counsel Jack Smith is continuing to push for a judge in Florida to restrict former President Donald Trump‘s speech, submitting to the court Wednesday night dozens of examples to support his request.
Prosecutors for Smith filed numerous instances of threats Trump supporters made in the wake of the former president making critical statements about the investigation, as the government attempts to convince Judge Aileen Cannon to approve the speech restriction.
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Cannon, a Trump appointee, appeared skeptical of the government’s request at a hearing this week. She suggested there was a lack of evidence to support a direct correlation between Trump’s remarks and threats that have been made to law enforcement officials.
“There still needs to be a factual connection between A and B,” Cannon said.
The judge allowed Smith to submit more evidence of the correlation, which he did Wednesday.
Smith has asked Cannon to modify the conditions of Trump’s release that the former president agreed to when he was arraigned on charges of unlawfully retaining classified documents last year so that the former president cannot make certain statements about law enforcement officials.
“The Court should exercise its authority to impose a condition that Trump may not make public statements that pose a significant, imminent, and foreseeable danger to the law enforcement agents participating in the investigation and prosecution of this case,” prosecutors wrote in the request.
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