2023-08-08 14:40:30
Last Thursday, Trump appeared in federal court in the District of Columbia where he pleaded not guilty.
The legal team of former President Donald Trump asked the judicial authorities to limit the order proposed by the Government to prevent him from sharing information on social networks about the case of the 2020 elections, which the former president is accused of having tried to reverse.
In a court filing, Trump’s lawyers suggest special counsel Jack Smith’s proposed order is overly broad and propose that Judge Tanya Chutkan, handling the case, adopt a narrower version that addresses only “genuinely sensitive materials.” “.
“This more moderate approach (…) appropriately balances the administration’s wishes to ‘protect highly sensitive categories of material’ and ‘accelerate the pace of discovery’ with the rights of President Trump and the public to free speech and an open process,” they wrote.
In this sense, the lawyers accused the Prosecutor’s Office of “asking this Court to assume the role of censor”, and of trying to prevent their client from sharing non-sensitive documents that could exculpate him.
The proposal by the former president’s legal team comes after last Friday the special prosecutor investigating him, Jack Smith, asked Judge Chutkan to issue a “protection order” to prevent Trump from sharing information about witnesses and witnesses on social networks. other evidence that the prosecution will present during the judicial process.
The former president’s lawyers had until this afternoon to respond to the request.
ACCUSATIONS
Last Thursday, Trump appeared before federal court in the District of Columbia where he pleaded not guilty to the four counts charged against him for allegedly trying to reverse the 2020 election in which he lost to the current president, Joe Biden, and for instigated the assault on the Capitol.
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