Trump insults and attacks everyone. Can a new gag order make him stop lying about FBI agents?

The FBI joins the long list of presidents, judges, and investigators who have been attacked by Donald Trump, and a judge may have to — once again — demand that the former president keep his mouth shut.

On Friday, federal prosecutors asked a Florida judge to implement a gag order against the former president speaking out about the law enforcement who searched Mar-a-Lago.

But will another gag order actually stop Mr Trump from saying what he wants when fines barely make a dent in his wallet and an army of GOP surrogates stands ready to speak for him?

Mr Trump is already under a gag order in his hush money case and his 2020 election interference case, and now prosecutors in the classified documents case are asking a judge to bar the former president from making statements that might put their or their colleagues' lives in danger.

Earlier this week, Mr Trump insisted that the FBI had been authorized to shoot him during the August 2022 raid at Mar-a-Lago.

That statement is false.

Then, in a social media post on Tuesday, Mr Trump lied again, saying that Joe Biden «authorized the FBI to use deadly (lethal) force» while they searched his golf club.

Mr Trump got the idea that Mr Biden had sent a federal hit squad after him thanks to a recently unsealed FBI operational plan for the Mar-a-Lago raid. The plan included a standard reference to the authorization of lethal force in the event of an emergency. Prosecutors have argued that Mr Trump distorted that boilerplate information to insinuate that Mr Biden tried to have him killed, the New York Times reports.

“As Trump is well aware, the FBI took extraordinary care to execute the search warrant unobtrusively and without needless confrontation,” prosecutors wrote in a legal