Trump lawyers seek sanctions against Jack Smith after ‘unconstitutional gag order’ request
By
Annabella Rosciglione
May 27, 2024 9:15 pm
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Former President Donald Trump‘s lawyers are seeking sanctions against special counsel Jack Smith and his office for the request to limit what Trump could say about law enforcement agents involved in his Florida classified documents case.
Trump’s lawyers filed a motion on Monday asking U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, who is presiding over the case, to strike Smith’s request, make civil contempt findings for all attorneys in the government who were involved with the decision, and impose sanctions following an “evidentiary hearing” into Smith’s office’s decision to “disregard required procedures.”
Federal prosecutors on Friday asked Cannon to revise the conditions of Trump’s release to prohibit him from making public comments that could “pose a significant, imminent, and foreseeable danger to law enforcement agents.”
Trump’s team is arguing Smith’s motion “improperly asks the Court to impose an unconstitutional gag order on President Trump,” which was “based on vague and unsupported assertions about threats to law enforcement personnel whose names have been redacted from public filings.”
Smith’s office filed the request in response to a claim Trump made last week regarding the FBI agents who searched his home in August 2022, stating they were “authorized to shoot me” and were “locked & loaded ready to take me out & put my family in danger.”
During the search, the FBI followed a standard use-of-force policy that prohibits the use of deadly force except when the officer has a reasonable belief that the subject being searched has an intent to harm the officer or another person.
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