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The Justice Department on Friday urged a federal judge overseeing former President Trump’s election fraud case to issue a protective order against the former president after he made social media posts the department argues are threatening.
Prosecutors asked U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan to issue a protective order in the case a day after Trump pleaded not guilty to charges of attempting to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in his favor and block the peaceful transition of power. The protective order would limit the information Trump and his legal team would be allowed to share publicly about the case.
Protective orders like this are common in criminal cases, but prosecutors said it’s “particularly important” in this case because Trump has posted on social media about “witnesses, judges, attorneys, and others associated with legal matters pending against him.”
A social media post Trump made earlier Friday on his Truth Social platform was cited in the prosecutors’ request.
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The Justice Department on Friday urged a federal judge overseeing former President Trump’s election fraud case to issue a protective order against the former president. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
“IF YOU GO AFTER ME, I’M COMING AFTER YOU!” Trump wrote on the platform.
Prosecutors said they are ready to hand over a “substantial” amount of evidence to Trump’s legal team, with much of it including “sensitive and confidential information.” The prosecutors told the judge that there could be a “harmful chilling effect on witnesses or adversely affect the fair administration of justice in this case” if the former president were to begin posting about grand jury transcripts or other evidence provided by the Justice Department.
The proposed protective order seeks to prevent Trump and his lawyers from disclosing materials provided by the government to anyone outside his legal team, possible witnesses, the…
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