By Marlyn Montilla
May 25, 2024, 09:29 AM EDT
The prosecutors in charge of former President Donald Trump’s case for mishandling secret documents found after he left the White House asked the Court to prohibit him from making statements that “represent a significant danger” to law enforcement officials participating in the process.
The petition comes in response to the Republican’s accusations that the Department of Justice (DOJ) authorized “deadly force” against him in the raid on his Mar-a-Lago, Florida, mansion.
Last Tuesday, the Republican magnate suggested in a fundraising email that the language used in the search warrant implied that Democratic President Joe Biden wanted armed agents to take him down.
Likewise, on the social network Truth Social, he noted that “Joe Biden’s Department of Justice authorized the FBI to use lethal force” against him.
His campaign insisted on that line by adding to another email that “authorizing the use of ‘lethal force’ against a former president of the United States (and main political rival of the party in power) involves the use of the law as an armed arm, for part of the Biden Administration, to a whole new level.”
The 12-page initiative asks Southern District of Florida Judge Aileen Cannon to make clear that Trump’s statements create an “extremely misleading impression” about the intentions and conduct of federal law enforcement agents (suggesting falsely that they were complicit in a plot to assassinate him) and “expose those agents, some of whom will be witnesses at trial, to the risk of threats, violence and harassment.”
Prosecutors wrote in the motion that the court has an “obligation” to protect the integrity of this judicial proceeding and that immediate steps should be taken to stop this “dangerous campaign of defamation of the law.”
In this sense, Trump’s statements produced the rejection of the United States Attorney General, Merrick Garland, who called the former president’s accusation regarding the search of his mansion in the summer of last year “false” and “extremely dangerous.” .
On May 7, Judge Cannon indefinitely postponed the trial date pending the resolution of previous complaints, making it almost unlikely that the process will take place before the November presidential election, where Trump is the virtual candidate. who will represent the Republican Party.
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