Donald Trump’s lawyers looked to pull the old switcheroo Monday when they requested a federal judge to reject the gag order in the classified documents case that was requested by special counsel Jack Smith – and instead find the prosecution in contempt.
Smith’s office last week requested Judge Aileen Cannon, who is overseeing the classified document case in Florida, to impose a gag order on Trump, limiting his ability to publicly discuss the law enforcement search of his Mar-a-Lago resort back in 2022. That came after the former president falsely claimed that the FBI had been authorized to kill him, a claim rebutted by the bureau itself.
