Jack Smith Has a New Trump Request for Aileen Cannon
Newsweek - 2024-05-25T02:03:52.000Z

Special Counsel Jack Smith has asked Judge Aileen Cannon to bar former President Donald Trump from speaking about law enforcement after he suggested that the FBI was planning to assassinate him while searching Mar-a-Lago in August 2022.A Trump campaign email sent to supporters earlier this week claimed that FBI agents were "authorized to shoot" Trump and "itching to do the unthinkable" during the raid, while the former president also suggested in a series of Truth Social posts that the...

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