WASHINGTON (AP) — The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s secret documents case in Florida on Tuesday denied prosecutors’ request to ban the former president from making public statements that would expose law enforcement officials participating in the prosecution. could endanger.
U.S. District Judge Aileen Kanon said in her order that prosecutors did not give defense attorneys sufficient time to discuss the request before filing it Friday evening. She denied the request without prejudice, meaning prosecutors could resubmit it.
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 “authorized to shoot me” and were “locked and loaded, ready to take me out and endanger my family. .”
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee was referring to the revelation in a court document that the FBI followed a standard use of force policy during the search that prohibits the use of deadly force except when the officer conducting the search has a reasonable belief that it is “ subject of such force poses an imminent danger of death or serious bodily injury to the officer or to any other person.”
