Special counsel Jack Smith is seeking a gag order against former President Donald Trump after he suggested the FBI was authorized to assassinate him.
The request follows the revelation last week that the FBI was permitted to use “deadly force” in the 2022 raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate.
In response, Trump claimed FBI agents were “authorized to shoot me” and were “locked & loaded ready to take me out & put my family in danger.”
Smith’s team rebuffed such claims in a court filing in the Florida-based classified documents case against Trump.
Federal prosecutors said the statements “falsely” suggested law enforcement agents “were complicit in a plot to assassinate” Trump.
The statements also “expose those agents, some of whom will be witnesses at trial, to the risk of threats, violence, and harassment,” they added.
Smith’s team asked the court to restrain Trump…
