Trump seeks to deny prosecutors’ gag-order motion in documents case

Lawyers for Donald Trump on Monday asked a federal judge to reject prosecutors’ request for a gag order limiting what the former U.S. president can say about law enforcement officers involved in the case accusing him of mishandling sensitive documents.
Trump’s team also asked U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon in Fort Pierce, Florida, to impose sanctions and pursue civil contempt findings against “all government attorneys who participated in the decision to file the motion.”
In the documents case, one of four criminal prosecutions of Trump, prosecutors have brought 40 counts of illegally retaining sensitive national security documents after leaving office. Trump has asserted his right to retain them.
On Friday, prosecutors asked Cannon to review Trump’s bail conditions and issue an order to prevent him from making statements that pose a danger to law enforcement.
Special Counsel Jack Smith said the request was necessary because of several “intentionally false and inflammatory statements” that Trump made recently about the FBI search of his Mar-a-Lago golf resort in Florida in August 2022.