(OurNationNews.com) -A motion filed by prosecutors in former president Donald Trump’s classified documents lawsuit seeking to limit the former chief executive’s statements on law enforcement involved in his case has been denied by the judge in charge of the case’s proceedings.
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee, rejected the prosecution’s request, saying that the defense did not receive proper notice of the motion, which prevented them from providing an adequate response to it. However, she gave the prosecution the option to file the motion again once Trump’s legal team have had sufficient time to review it beforehand.
Prosecutors have raised concerns that Trump’s statements on the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s raid and search of his luxury Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida potentially opened up FBI agents and the agency itself to threats and harassment from sympathizers of the former president.
Trump has claimed that the raid, which yielded dozens of boxes of sensitive government documents, had agents who were “locked and loaded” and were “ready to shoot” him. In truth, however, the raid was conducted at a time when Trump and his family were not present in the property, and was even coordinated with the U.S. Secret Service. No force was used, and the FBI said that all proper protocols for such searches were followed to the letter.
Judge Cannon’s rejection of the prosecution’s motion is the latest in a string of small defeats the team of Special Counsel Jack Smith has faced in the classified documents case against Trump. Last year, the judge chided prosecutors for “wasting the court’s time” when she said that the prosecution failed to file the proper documents with the court in relation to a set arguments presented at a hearing to determine if a conflict of interest existed for one of Trump’s co-defendants in the case.
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