Prosecutors in classified files case to urge judge to bar Trump from inflammatory comments about FBI

The federal judge presiding over the classified documents prosecution of Donald Trump is hearing arguments on June 24 on whether to bar the former President from public comments that prosecutors say could endanger the lives of FBI agents working on the case. Mr. Smith's team objected last month after Mr. Trump claimed that the FBI was prepared to kill him while executing a court-authorized search warrant of Mar-a-Lago on Aug. 8, 2022. He was referencing boilerplate language from FBI policy that prohibits the use of deadly force except when the officer searching has a reasonable belief that the “subject of such force poses an imminent danger of death or serious physical injury to the officer or another person.” Mr. Trump falsely claimed in a fundraising email that the FBI was “locked & loaded ready to take me out & put my family in danger.” Prosecutors say such comments pose a significant foreseeable risk to law enforcement, citing as examples an attempted attack on an FBI office in Ohio three days after the Mar-a-Lago search and the more recent arrest of a Trump supporter accused of threatening an FBI agent who investigated President Joe Biden's son, Hunter. Mr. Trump's lawyers say they've failed to show that his comments have directly endangered any FBI official who participated in the Mar-a-Lago search.