Judge Aileen Cannon, the Trump appointee presiding over the former president’s classified documents case, has rejected special counsel Jack Smith’s request for a gag order. And while she stopped short of embracing the defense's motion that prosecutors should be held in contempt, she lectured prosecutors for failing to give the defense adequate time, in her view, to draft a response to their request for a gag.
Cannon took the prosecution to task over their filing at the end of last week that sought to stop Trump from putting law enforcement in “foreseeable danger” over their raid of his home in Mar-a-Lago. Smith pushed for the gag order after Trump’s false statements on Truth Social claiming that the feds were authorized to assassinate him.
