Smith's request would bar Trump from saying anything that could endanger agents working on the case.
Trump’s lawyers filed a motion on Monday asking U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, who is presiding over the case, to strike Smith’s request, make civil contempt findings for all attorneys in the government who were involved with the decision, and impose sanctions following an “evidentiary hearing” into Smith’s office’s decision to “disregard required procedures.”
Trump’s team is arguing Smith’s motion “improperly asks the Court to impose an unconstitutional gag order on President Trump,” which was “based on vague and unsupported assertions about threats to law enforcement personnel whose names have been redacted from public filings.
Trump’s motion said Smith’s request was based on “unsupported assertions about threats to law enforcement personnel” and that their names have already been redacted from public filings. “The Motion is an extraordinary, unprecedented, and unconstitutional censorship application,” the filing said. “The Motion unjustly targets President Trump’s campaign speech while he is the leading candidate for the presidency.
“We noted the suspicious timing of the communication,” the filing said. Trump’s team said they offered to meet Monday evening, to which the special counsel called a conferral a “fruitless exercise.”
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