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Special counsel Jack Smith on Friday asked the judge overseeing former President Donald Trump's classified documents case in Florida to bar him from making statements that endanger law enforcement. The filing marks the second motion from Smith in days urging U.S. District Judge Judge Aileen Cannon to modify Trump's conditions of release in the case.
Secret Service agents,' Smith said in the motion. 'Those deceptive and inflammatory assertions irresponsibly put a target on the backs of the FBI agents involved in this case, as Trump well knows.' Smith's previous motion on the issue was denied on Tuesday because Cannon argued that the special counsel's efforts to discuss the issue with Trump's defense team was 'wholly lacking in substance and professional courtesy.
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