The special counsel's filing highlighted comments from a 'Meet the Press' interview this month and remarks about now-former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley.
in which prosecutors said he made “prejudicial statements” about Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and former U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr who are both identified as witnesses in the indictment against Trump.
The filing also referred to several posts that appeared on Trump’s Truth Social account this month, including a post last week that took aim at Milley by suggesting that “in times gone by” the general would have been executed for what Trump described asconduct during the period after the 2020 election when Trump attempted to stay in power.
Friday's filing comes after Smith's office this month asked U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, who is presiding over the case, for a that would bar Trump from making certain extrajudicial statements about the case, in an effort to prevent any public remarks that would likely influence the outcome of trial or prejudice jury selection."The need for the proposed order is further evidenced by a review of the defendant’s prejudicial statements in the weeks since the Government initially filed its motion on September 5," they wrote.
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