Prosecutors ask judge in classified documents case to block Trump from statements endangering law enforcement

Prosecutors in Donald Trump's classified documents case in Florida asked a federal judge on Friday to block the former president from making public statements that pose "a significant, imminent, and foreseeable danger to law enforcement agents" investigating and prosecuting the case.

The request toU.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, who is overseeing the case, comes after the former president this week falsely claimed in a Truth Social post that the Biden administration "AUTHORIZED THE FBI TO USE DEADLY (LETHAL) FORCE" in its 2022 search of Mar-a-Lago for classified documents. The Trump campaign also claimed in a fundraising email that President Joe Biden was "locked & loaded ready to take me out" during a search of his Mar-a-Lago property for classified documents.

Prosecutors in special counsel Jack Smith's office said in their court filing that agents acted "in an appropriate and professional manner, subject to the Department of Justice’s standard use-of-force policy" and argued that Trump's claims posed a threat to law enforcement agents.

"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," prosecutors wrote. "A restriction prohibiting future similar statements should therefore be modified to prohibit similar communications going forward."

In making the allegations, Trump and his campaign appeared to be citing recently unsealed court filings related to the 2022 search. The filings showed the judge overseeing the case at the time questioned how the former president could not