Jack Smith’s team tries for another Trump gag order after getting shot down

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Special counsel Jack Smith is making a second request that a gag order be imposed on former President Donald Trump after Judge Alieen Cannon rejected the previous motion.

Smith’s request would bar Trump from making statements about the law enforcement officers who searched his Mar-a-Lago home and found large stashes of classified documents. In Florida, Trump is charged on 40 counts stemming from his alleged mishandling of classified documents after he left the White House and efforts to obstruct the Justice Department’s investigation.

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