Special counsel asks judge to limit Trump's "inflammatory" statements in 2020 election case
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Washington — Special counsel Jack Smith has asked the judge overseeing the case against Donald Trump for his alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election to limit what the former president can say publicly about the case, accusing him of making "inflammatory public statements" aimed at influencing potential jurors and intimidating witnesses.
In a 24-page filing on Friday, Smith and his prosecutors list a litany of posts by Trump on his Truth Social platform since his indictment in the case in August. They say the former president "has spread disparaging and inflammatory public posts on Truth Social on a near-daily basis regarding the citizens of the District of Columbia, the Court, prosecutors, and prospective witnesses." They allege that Trump knows he "inspires others to perpetrate threats and harassment against his targets."
The government lawyers asked Judge Tanya Chutkan to impose a "narrowly tailored" order that would bar Trump from making "extrajudicial statements that present a serious and substantial danger of materially prejudicing this case."
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