Judge in Mar-a-Lago case asked to curb Trump’s speech

Prosecutors make request of Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee, saying ex-president’s claims pose threat to law enforcement

Federal prosecutors on Friday asked the judge in Florida overseeing the classified documents case against Donald Trump to bar the former president from public statements that “pose a significant, imminent, and foreseeable danger to law enforcement agents” participating in the prosecution.

The request was made to the federal judge in the case, US district judge Aileen Cannon. It follows a distorted claim by Trump earlier this week that the FBI agents who searched his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, in August 2022 were “authorized to shoot me” and were “locked and loaded ready to take me out and put my family in danger”.