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Judge nixes bid to restrict Trump statements that could endanger officers
Updated On: 29 May, 2024 08:10 AM IST | Washington | AP
In the New York case, Trump has been fined and threatened with jail time for repeatedly violating a gag order that bars him from making public statements about witnesses, jurors and some others connected to the matter
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The judge overseeing Donald Trump`s classified documents case in Florida on Tuesday denied prosecutors` request to bar the former president from making public statements that could endanger law enforcement agents participating in the prosecution. US District Judge Aileen Cannon said in her order that prosecutors on special counsel Jack Smith`s team didn`t give defence lawyers adequate time to discuss the request before it was filed Friday evening.
She denied the request without prejudice, meaning prosecutors could file it again. The request followed a distorted claim by Trump last week that the FBI agents who searched his Mar-a-Lago estate in August 2022 were "authorised to shoot me" and were "locked & loaded ready to take me out & put my family in danger." The presumptive Republican presidential nominee was referring to the disclosure in a court document that the FBI, during the search in Palm Beach, Florida, followed a standard use-of-force policy that prohibits the use of deadly force except when the officer conducting the search has a reasonable belief that the "subject of such force poses an imminent danger of death or serious physical injury to the officer or to another person."
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