Prosecutors arguing for a gag order against Donald Trump cite a recent retracted claim of him purchasing a weapon as a possible violation of the law.
Federal prosecutors said in a Friday night filing that former president Donald Trump may have broken the law if he“The defendant either purchased a gun in violation of the law and his conditions of release, or seeks to benefit from his supporters’ mistaken belief that he did so,” the court filing argues. “It would be a separate federal crime, and thus a violation of the defendant’s conditions of release, for him to purchase a gun while this felony indictment is pending.
The video “showed the defendant holding a Glock pistol with the defendant’s likeness etched into it. The defendant stated, ‘I’ve got to buy one,’ and posed for pictures,” the prosecutors’ filing states, noting that the staffer posted the video with a caption that said: “President Trump purchases a @GLOCKInc in South Carolina!”The campaign staffer later deleted the post and retracted the claim, saying Trump did not purchase or take possession of the gun.
The prosecutors raised the South Carolina incident in arguing that the judge in D.C. overseeing his pending should impose a gag order on Trump because of public statements he has made attacking prosecutors, the judge and potential witnesses. Those statements, prosecutors argue, could intimidate jurors or bias the pool of prospective jurors.“The defendant should not be permitted to obtain the benefits of his incendiary public statements and then avoid accountability by having others — whose messages he knows will receive markedly less attention than his own — feign retraction,” the prosecutors wrote.
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