Ever-pursuing his target of former President Donald Trump, special prosecutor Jack Smith has continued his legal barrage against Trump with a new motion.
The Department of Justice watchdog reportedly doesn't "mince words" in his motion to Judge Aileen Cannon, according to MSNBC legal analyst and former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner
Following his indictment by the Department of Justice in June of last year on forty federal charges, which allege that he illegally held confidential information after leaving the White House in 2021 and impeded the government's efforts to obtain them, Trump is scheduled to stand trial sometime in the near future.
In August of 2022, the FBI conducted a search warrant at Trump's Mar-a-Lago home, which is located in Palm Beach, Florida.
The former president has entered a plea of not guilty and has stated that the case is being moved forward for political reasons, namely that he is mounting what could be a highly successful presidential bid against the current president, who, consiquently ultimately presides over the Attorney General, who runs the Department of Justice.
As Smith highlighted a new piece of reported evidence to bolster his argument, he asked Cannon, a Trump appointee who is frequently accused of favoring the former president, to grant his request to have Trump under a gag order. This request was made in a court file that was submitted on Friday.
The special counsel asserted that the threat that was allegedly made by a Trump supporter to an FBI agent showed that the threat that is posed by the former president is "imminent."
"Statements that present a significant, imminent, and foreseeable danger to the law enforcement agents working on this case pose a significant and imminent threat to the integrity of these criminal proceedings," Smith wrote in the filing.
In his filing, Smith cites an incident that occurred on June 11 and involved a man from Texas who allegedly made contact with and threatened an FBI agent who was working on an investigation of Hunter Biden, who is the son of President Joe Biden.
"Just last week, a supporter of Trump called an FBI agent associated with the Hunter Biden case and claimed that, if Trump wins reelection, FBI agents will be thrown in jail; and if he does not win, the agents will be 'hunt[ed] down' and 'slaughter[ed]' in their own homes, after which '[w]e're going to slaughter your whole f***ing family,'" the special counsel wrote.
"No court would tolerate another defendant deliberately creating such immediate risks to the safety of law enforcement, and this Court should not wait for a tragic event before taking action in this case."
Kirschner, a former assistant United States attorney who is a frequent critic of Trump, discussed Smith's move in a video that was uploaded to his YouTube channel on Saturday.
"Let me start with the new motion that was just filed by Special Counsel Jack Smith and the one thing I will give him is he does not mince words.
"He is direct, he is blunt, he is unyielding....but we have to have an honest discussion about whether forever trying to restrain, control, Donald Trump with gag orders makes any sense given what we have learned, given Donald Trump's repeated violations of those gag orders," Kirschner said.
