Trump Seeks Sanctions Over DOJ’s Gag Order Request

CNN reports:

Former President Donald Trump’s attorneys asked a federal judge Monday to reject special counsel Jack Smith’s request for a gag order in the classified documents case and to find the federal prosecutors who wrote the request in contempt.

Smith’s office has requested that the Florida judge overseeing the classified documents case, Aileen Cannon, place a gag order on the former president that would limit his ability to publicly talk about law enforcement that searched his Mar-a-Lago estate in 2022.

Trump, the presumptive GOP nominee, has repeatedly and misleadingly criticized the FBI for having a policy in place around the use of deadly force during the search – as the bureau does with every warrant it executes.

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Lawyers for Donald Trump on May 27 asked a federal judge to reject prosecutors’ request for a gag order limiting what the former US president can say about law enforcement officers involved in the case accusing him of mishandling sensitive documents https://t.co/6GYlZnneZb pic.twitter.com/ejr114Yzgu

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