U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon on Monday did not immediately rule on a motion from special counsel Jack Smith’s team to add new restrictions on former President Donald Trump that would prevent him from making claims about being unfairly targeted by law enforcement.
In a hearing on Monday, prosecutor David Harbach contended that Trump’s statements about FBI agents who were involved in the probe into how Trump handled classified documents “are dangerous” to investigators who might be called to testify against Trump. Smith had asked for Trump’s bail to be amended to prevent him from making any disparaging comments about law enforcement agents involved in the documents case.
Todd Blanche, Trump’s attorney, contended that the restrictions Smith intended to implement were unclear to others, saying, “Of course President Trump has absolutely no desire for anything bad to…
