Breaking: Judge refuses to gag Trump in classified docs case, blames prosecutors for failure to meet ‘basic requirements’

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District Judge Aileen Cannon, overseeing Trump’s classified-documents case in Florida, rejected the prosecution’s request to gag the former president from publicly speaking about the FBI agents who raided Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday.

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Cannon accused prosecutors of failure to meet “basic requirements.” Specifically, the prosecution failed to confer with Trump’s attorneys before filing the motion to gag Trump and did not give the defense “sufficient time” to review their filing, which was submitted late Friday of Memorial Day weekend.

“Because the filing of the Special Counsel’s motion did not adhere to these basic requirements, it is due to be denied without prejudice,” Cannon wrote in her order.

Trump’s team had asked Cannon to sanction the prosecutors in special counsel Jack Smith’s office who filed the order, calling it an attempt at “unconstitutional censorship.”

Prosecutors sought the gag order after last week when Trump claimed that the authorities who stormed his property were “authorized to shoot me” and were “locked & loaded ready to take me out & put my family in danger.”

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In their Friday evening filing, Smith’s team claimed that Trump’s comments “pose a significant, imminent, and foreseeable danger to law enforcement agents participating in the investigation and prosecution of this case.”

“President Donald J. Trump respectfully submits this procedural opposition to the May 24, 2024 filing by the Special Counsel’s Office, which improperly asks the Court to impose an unconstitutional gag order on President Trump, as a condition of his pretrial release, based on vague and unsupported assertions about threats to law enforcement personnel whose names have been redacted from public filings and whose identities are already subject to a protective order,” Trump’s lawyers wrote.

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