Classified documents prosecutors seek to block Trump from making statements that could endanger law enforcement

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

43% : Asked Thursday at an unrelated event about the claim that the FBI intended to use force against Trump, Attorney General Merrick Garland said, "That allegation is false, and it is extremely dangerous.
42% : Prosecutors noted that the search was intentionally conducted when Trump and his family were away and was coordinated with the Secret Service.
42% : "The Government's request is necessary because of several intentionally false and inflammatory statements recently made by Trump that distort the circumstances under which the Federal Bureau of Investigation planned and executed the search warrant at Mar-a-Lago," prosecutors on special counsel Jack Smith's team wrote in asking that Cannon make a restriction on Trump's statements a condition of his release pending trial.
35% : Featured Local SavingsAn attorney for Trump didn't immediately respond to a message seeking comment Friday night.
22% : The request to U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon follows a false claim by Trump earlier this week that the FBI agents who searched his home in August 2022 were "authorized to shoot me" and were "locked & loaded ready to take me out & put my family in danger.
21% : Trump faces four criminal cases as he seeks to reclaim the White House, but outside of the New York hush money prosecution, it's unclear that any of the other three will reach trial before the election.
14% : Federal prosecutors on Friday asked the judge overseeing the classified documents case against Donald Trump to bar the former president from public statements that "pose a significant, imminent, and foreseeable danger to law enforcement agents" participating in the prosecution.

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