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Department of Justice (DOJ) special counsel Jack Smith‘s latest court filing “exposes the dangerous, incendiary, violence-inducing lies of Donald Trump,” legal analyst Glenn Kirschner said on Saturday.
On Tuesday, the former president posted misleading claims about the warrant’s wording on his Truth Social account, alleging that the DOJ “AUTHORIZED THE FBI TO USE DEADLY (LETHAL) FORCE.” In addition, a Trump campaign email that was recently sent to supporters claimed that FBI agents were “authorized to shoot” Trump, claiming President Joe Biden was “locked & loaded and ready to take me [Trump] out.”
“The FBI followed standard protocol in this search as we do for all search warrants, which includes a standard policy statement limiting the use of deadly force. No one ordered additional steps to be taken and there was no departure from the norm in this matter,” the agency’s statement said.
Discussing Trump’s claim about the search warrant, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said at a press conference on Thursday that the “allegation is false and it is extremely dangerous,” reiterating that the document in question is standard policy.
In a Saturday video on his YouTube channel, Kirschner, a former assistant U.S. attorney and frequent critic of the former president, said, “A fourth judge is now considering the need to gag Donald Trump to keep him from endangering the folks who are involved in the endeavor of trying to hold him accountable for his crimes.”
Newsweek has reached out to Kirschner and Trump’s spokesperson for comment via email on Sunday.
Special counsel Jack Smith is seen on August 1, 2023, in Washington, D.C. Smith’s latest court filing “exposes the dangerous, incendiary, violence-inducing lies of Donald Trump,” legal analyst Glenn Kirschner said on Saturday.
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In response to Trump’s assassination claims, Smith filed a motion on Friday for Judge Aileen Cannon to bar Trump from making “statements that pose a significant, imminent, and foreseeable danger” to law enforcement agents involved in the case.
The motion says Trump’s inaccurate comments make “a grossly misleading impression about the intentions and conduct of federal law enforcement agents—falsely suggesting that they were complicit in a plot to assassinate him—and expose those agents, some of whom will be witnesses at trial, to the risk of threats, violence, and harassment.”
Kirschner said Smith’s latest filing “exposes the dangerous, incendiary, violence-inducing lies of Donald Trump.” He added that it “demands that the judge…do something about it.”
Cannon, who was appointed by Trump in 2020 and is overseeing the classified documents case, has faced criticism for making several decisions that some say have favored the former president. Earlier this month, Cannon indefinitely suspended the start of the trial while other legal disputes related to the case are being settled.
Several legal analysts support Smith’s filing, suggesting it will put Cannon in a difficult position. If she doesn’t grant the gag order, Smith could appeal to a higher court, citing potential bias.
“Smart move by Smith as Judge Cannon won’t be likely to grant the gag order, will show her patent bias, and Smith can then appeal to the 11th Circuit,” former FBI general counsel Andrew Weissmann wrote on X, formerly Twitter, on Friday.
In an emailed statement to Newsweek on Friday, Trump campaign communications director Steven Cheung said the motion was evidence that “Crooked Joe Biden and his Hacks and Thugs are obsessed with trying to deprive President Trump and all American voters of their First Amendment rights.”
He added: “Repeated attempts to silence President Trump during the presidential campaign are blatant attempts to interfere in the election. They are last-ditch efforts of desperate Democrat Radicals running a losing campaign for a failed president.”
Update 5/26/24, 6:02 p.m. ET: This article has been updated with additional information.
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Florida Representative Bryon Donalds was pressed about the “conspiracy theory” pushed by Donald Trump and other Republicans that the FBI wanted to assassinate the former president during the search for classified documents in August 2022.
Donalds, among those cited as being Trump’s possible 2024 running mate, repeatedly dodged questions put to him by CNN‘s Abby Phillip on why he and other Republicans pushed a false claim that President Joe Biden approved the assassination of Trump during the search of his Mar-a-Lago resort.
Trump falsely claimed in a fundraising email that the wording of the search warrant, which said that agents were prepared to use “deadly force” if necessary, meant that Biden was “locked & loaded ready to take me out.”
The “deadly force” phrase is instead a standard line to include in federal search warrants while laying out the protocol for such an operation.
During Donalds’ appearance on CNN, the congressman was pressed on why he and other GOP figures tried to suggest something “that’s just not true” with regards to Biden authorizing an assassination attempt on Trump.
“That is false. Will you acknowledge that?” Phillip asked Donalds. In reply, he said: “I’m not sure what [Attorney General] Merrick Garland is trying to do these days because it is clear that the Department of Justice is being politicized against Donald Trump…that’s not extraordinary, that’s what’s happening right now.”
Phillip said what is “extraordinary” is that when “faced with really clear facts, very clear facts,” Donalds would not admit his previous remarks were not true.
Rep. Byron Donalds speaks outside the courthouse during former President Donald Trump’s New York criminal trial on May 14. Donalds was questioned on CNN about why he pushed a false claim about an FBI assassination…
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Phillip went on to say that if the Republican Party “calls themselves a party of law” why would he insinuate that the wording of a search warrant “was some kind of attempt at former President Trump’s life?”
After Donalds again attempted to avoid the line of questioning, Phillip added: “When you tell your supporters, the former president’s supporters, that there was a government attempt on the former president’s life—and that is not true, that is a major insinuation—it deserves to be walked back.”
“I would argue right now if you look at the actions of [Special Counsel] Jack Smith and Merrick Garland, there is an attempt to incarcerate Donald Trump over foolishness because they cannot win a political election,” Donalds replied.
“And they have lost their minds collectively. And they have decided that whether it’s the documents case, or this foolish January 6 case, which has no true merit, or what’s happening here in Manhattan with Alvin Bragg, they have chosen to use the justice system for political purposes and interfere in elections.
“That’s not a conspiracy theory. That’s a real situation we should be talking about talking about, not what’s written in that FBI document.”
Newsweek reached out to Donalds via email for comment.
The wording of the search warrant was unsealed in court documents this week in relation to Trump’s classified materials case.
“WOW! I just came out of the Biden Witch Hunt Trial in Manhattan, the ‘Icebox,’ and was shown Reports that Crooked Joe Biden’s DOJ, in their Illegal and UnConstitutional Raid of Mar-a-Lago, AUTHORIZED THE FBI TO USE DEADLY (LETHAL) FORCE,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social.
“NOW WE KNOW, FOR SURE, THAT JOE BIDEN IS A SERIOUS THREAT TO DEMOCRACY. HE IS MENTALLY UNFIT TO HOLD OFFICE — 25TH AMENDMENT!”
Trump was not at his Florida home when the FBI conducted its search for classified documents on August 8, 2022.
In a statement, the FBI said that the wording of the warrant was standard and also included when agents searched Biden’s Delaware home for classified materials.
“The FBI followed standard protocol in this search as we do for all search warrants, which includes a standard policy statement limiting the use of deadly force. No one ordered additional steps to be taken and there was no departure from the norm in this matter,” the statement said.
“The standard deadly force policy statement included in the operations order for the search of the former president’s residence was also included in the operations order for the search of the sitting president’s residence in Delaware, as is standard practice for all FBI operations orders.”
