Judge skeptical of requests to muzzle Trump attacks on FBI | Honolulu Star-Advertiser

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

35% : Trump has pleaded not guilty to charges he illegally held onto sensitive national security papers after leaving office in 2021 as well as obstructing government efforts to retrieve them.
35% : Trump was not present at the club at the time of the search.
32% : On social media and in fundraising messages, Trump has falsely claimed that a routine FBI use-of-force policy authorized agents to attempt an assassination when they raided his Mar-a-Lago estate in 2022 and seized boxes of documents he had taken from the White House.
30% : It is unlikely the case will reach a jury before Trump and Biden face voters in the Nov. 5 election.
26% : Judges overseeing two of these cases have imposed partial gag orders on Trump to try to rein in his verbal attacks on prosecutors, witnesses and other participants.
5% : On Friday, Trump's legal team argued that it should be dismissed because Smith has too much independence -- even though Trump has repeatedly blasted him as a puppet of Biden.
3% : Trump lawyer Todd Blanche said Trump was criticizing the administration of President Joe Biden, not individual agents who carried out the search.

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