<p>On Tuesday, special counsel <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jack-smith" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jack Smith</a>&#8216;s bid for a gag order against former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> in his classified documents case got rejected by the presiding federal judge in Florida.</p>
<p>Federal prosecutors&#8217; attempt to confer with Trump&#8217;s counsel before filing the request was &#8220;wholly lacking in substance and professional courtesy,&#8221; Judge Aileen Cannon <a href="https://x.com/kyledcheney/status/1795475610216595910" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote in a paperless order</a>.</p>
<p>Cannon said the request was denied without prejudice, meaning Smith could try again, but she warned a failure to provide adequate time for discussion between the parties may result in sanctions.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">JUST IN: Judge CANNON has denied Jack Smith&#39;s gag order request in FL, saying prosecutors&#39; effort to confer with defense before filing it was &quot;wholly lacking in substance and professional courtesy.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/E0Ri84l7si">pic.twitter.com/E0Ri84l7si</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) <a href="https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1795475610216595910?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 28, 2024</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Smith&#8217;s team sought the gag order last Friday after Trump <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-classified-documents-case-prosecutors-bar-law-enforcement-statements-danger/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed</a> FBI agents were &#8220;authorized to shoot me&#8221; and were &#8220;locked &amp; loaded ready to take me out &amp; put my family in danger.&#8221;</p>
<p>The former president was responding to the revelation that the FBI was permitted to use <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fbi-signed-off-on-use-of-deadly-force-for-raid-on-trump-home" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;deadly force&#8221;</a> in the 2022 raid on Trump&#8217;s Mar-a-Lago estate, though the bureau <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fbi-signed-off-on-use-of-deadly-force-for-raid-on-trump-home" target="_blank" rel="noopener">insists</a> it was following &#8220;standard protocol.&#8221;</p>
<p>Prosecutors said Trump&#8217;s statements &#8220;falsely&#8221; suggested law enforcement agents &#8220;were complicit in a plot to assassinate&#8221; the former president and exposed &#8220;agents, some of whom will be witnesses at trial, to the risk of threats, violence, and harassment.&#8221;</p>
<p>Smith&#8217;s team <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jack-smith-requests-gag-order-after-trump-says-fbi-agents-were-ready-to-take-me-out" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asked</a> the court to restrain Trump from making public declarations that pose a serious &#8220;danger&#8221; to agents participating in the case. In a footnote, prosecutors also noted Trump&#8217;s lawyers object to the motion as they &#8220;do not believe that there is any imminent danger.&#8221;</p>
<p>Trump is contending with a gag order in a separate <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/appeals-court-denies-trumps-gag-order-challenge" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York hush-money case</a>. He was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/judge-hits-trump-with-fines-threatens-jail-time-over-gag-order" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fined</a> thousands of dollars last month after being found to be in violation of that order. A judge also implemented a gag order in Smith&#8217;s <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/08/trump-gag-order-jan-6-case-00130874" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2020 election interference case</a> against the former president.</p>
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<p>Steven Cheung, Trump&#8217;s re-election campaign spokesman, reacted to Smith&#8217;s request for a gag order in the classified documents case by claiming that prosecutors were trying to meddle in the 2024 election.</p>
<p>&#8220;Hacks and Thugs are obsessed with trying to deprive President Trump and all American voters of their First Amendment rights,&#8221; Cheung <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/24/politics/trump-gag-order-trump-classified-documents/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;Repeated attempts to silence President Trump during the presidential campaign are blatant attempts to interfere in the election.&#8221;</p>
<p>Trump has maintained his innocence in all of the charges he faces, including in a separate 2020 election interference case in Georgia. Just one of the four cases — the criminal matter in Manhattan — has gone to trial so far.</p>
<p>Judge Cannon <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/federal-judge-indefinitely-postpones-trumps-classified-documents-trial" target="_blank" rel="noopener">postponed</a> the classified documents trial, which had been set for May 20, and has not selected a new date.</p>

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