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A prosecutor on Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team found himself on the receiving end of a judge’s scorn during a gag order hearing Monday in Trump’s classified documents case.
Prosecutor David Harbach argued that there is a “longstanding and well-documented relationship” between Trump’s public comments and his supporters’ actions, as he moved to have the court restrict Trump from making statements that pose a “significant, imminent and foreseeable danger” to law enforcement agents involved with the case, Courthouse News Service reported.
Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee, was reportedly skeptical of the gag order request and when Harbach became frustrated with her line of questioning, the judge snapped back.
“Mr. Harbach, I don’t appreciate your tone,” Cannon said. “I expect decorum in this courtroom at all times. If you cannot do that, I’m sure one of your colleagues can take up this motion.”
Harbach, who was reportedly annoyed about not being able to hit on all of his arguments because of the judge’s due diligence, later apologized for being “unprofessional,” according to the agency.
The prosecutor pointed to a Trump fundraising email last month that said the FBI was “authorized” to shoot him during their infamous raid of Mar-a-Lago.
“BIDEN’S DOJ WAS AUTHORIZED TO SHOOT ME!” the fundraising email said. “It’s just been revealed that Biden’s DOJ was authorized to use DEADLY FORCE for their DESPICABLE raid in Mar-a-Lago. You know they’re just itching to do the unthinkable.”
Trump also claimed in the email that President Joe Biden was “locked & loaded” and “ready to take me out & put my family in danger.”
“Saying something like this is beyond irresponsible,” Harbach insisted. “It is dangerous.”
Trump’s attorney Todd Blanche dismissed the pursuit of what prosecutors pushed as a narrowly tailored gag order.
“There’s a big difference between a traditional gag order and what the government is trying to do here,” Blanche said, according to CNS. “We concede that people listen to President Trump. That shouldn’t be used against him. He’s running for president of the United States.”
He also dismissed as flippant and frustrating that prosecutors would leverage potential harm to investigators to go after Trump.
“Of course, Mr. Trump has no intent for anything bad to happen to law enforcement,” the attorney said.
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