A government bid to restrain former President Donald Trump from publicly attacking FBI agents who searched his Mar-a-Lago estate for classified documents will be part of a series of pretrial hearin…
This image, contained in the indictment against former President Donald Trump, shows boxes of records stored in a bathroom and shower in the Lake Room at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla. The classified documents investigation of Donald Trump appeared to have clear momentum in 2022 when FBI agents who searched the former president’s Mar-a-Lago estate recovered dozens of boxes containing sensitive documents.
More recently, special counsels have probed Russian involvement in the 2016 presidential election, conducted an investigation of that investigation by Robert Mueller III, and examined the handling ofDuring arguments before Cannon on Friday, Trump’s defense lawyers aided by outside attorneys invited by the judge — known as friends of the court — jumped at the chance to pick at the arcane laws and regulations authorizing the special counsel appointments over the years.
Schaerr suggested that those including judges who green-lighted previous special counsel appointments had erred. Over the weekend, the government filed a sharply worded supplemental argument to a previous one seeking a limited gag order from the court, reiterating that Trump’s statements placed the agents and even their families in danger.
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