By Jasper Ward

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Prosecutors in former U.S. President Donald Trump’s labeled paperwork case requested a federal decide on Friday to forestall him from making statements that pose a “danger” to regulation enforcement, in line with a courtroom doc.

In a movement searching for to switch Trump’s situations of launch, Particular Counsel Jack Smith stated the request was obligatory due to “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.”

Within the submitting to Trump-appointed U.S. District Choose Aileen Cannon in Florida, Smith described the feedback as “grossly misleading” and stated regulation enforcement brokers who participated in a search of Trump’s property in August 2022 did so in an “appropriate and professional manner.”

Trump, the Republican challenger to President Joe Biden, a Democrat, within the Nov. 5 election, has falsely claimed in fundraising messages despatched by his marketing campaign this week that the FBI was licensed to aim an assassination.

“Trump’s repeated mischaracterization of these facts in widely distributed messages as an attempt to kill him, his family, and Secret Service agents has endangered law enforcement officers involved in the investigation and prosecution of this case and threatened the integrity of these proceedings,” Smith wrote, including that restriction of future comparable assertion doesn’t limit official speech.

The FBI searched Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort to retrieve labeled materials that he retained after leaving workplace. Brokers discovered a slew of data that led to costs on 40 counts of illegally retaining delicate nationwide safety paperwork after leaving workplace.

It’s certainly one of 4 felony prosecutions Trump faces. He has pleaded not responsible to all the fees, saying the prosecutions are half a politically motivated “witch hunt” to forestall him from regaining the White Home.

Earlier than the Mar-a-Lago search, the FBI drafted a coverage assertion, made public this week, that licensed regulation enforcement to make use of lethal drive provided that an officer or one other particular person was beneath rapid risk. Trump was not current when the search befell.

Merrick Garland, who oversees the FBI as lawyer basic, stated such insurance policies are routine and had been additionally in impact throughout consensual searches of Biden’s houses performed by the FBI in a separate labeled paperwork investigation.