The prosecutor asks that Trump be muzzled within the doc case

The prosecutor within the case, Jack Smith, requested a federal choose on Friday to stop Trump from making new statements “that pose a hazard to legislation enforcement”, writes the Reuters information company based mostly on a court docket doc.

“Trump’s repeated mischaracterization of those information in broadly distributed messages regarding makes an attempt to kill him, his household and Secret Service brokers has put legislation enforcement officers concerned within the investigation and prosecution of this case in danger. It has additionally threatened the integrity of those procedures,” Smith writes.

Moreover, the prosecutor writes that limiting future, related statements doesn’t restrict Trump’s freedom of expression.

– Trump’s claims are grossly deceptive

The previous president, who’s once more making an attempt to come back to energy within the autumn presidential election in the US, made the declare in a posts on the platform its Reality Social.

“Evil Joe Biden’s Justice Division, within the unlawful and unconstitutional search of Mar-a-Lago, gave the FBI AUTHORITY TO USE DEADLY FORCE,” he wrote.

Smith rejects Trump’s claims, which he described as “grossly deceptive,” in keeping with the court docket doc.

Hiding 13,000 secret paperwork

In August 2022, FBI brokers entered Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida. And there they discovered round 13,000 paperwork saved in packing containers that had been stacked within the residence’s bathe room, rest room, bed room, in an workplace and in a storage room.

Amongst them had been high secret paperwork coping with navy issues and the US nuclear weapons programme.

31 of the fees on this case, which is sometimes called the doc case, concern violations of the US Espionage Act. Trump denies felony guilt and has claimed that he, as president, had the authority to declassify the paperwork and due to this fact might have them.

The case is certainly one of 4 felony circumstances in opposition to the previous president. Earlier in Could, the choose within the case determined to postpone it indefinitely.