Xitter thread by Julie Kelly:
In a late Fri night/holiday weekend part damage control, part clickbait motion, Jack Smith wants Judge Cannon to prohibit Donald Trump from making “statements that pose a significant, imminent, and foreseeable danger to law enforcement agents participating in the investigation and prosecution of this case.”
His motion, predictably, is filled with distortions, omissions, and misrepresentations.
Smith gave short shrift to how 30 FBI agents were instructed to prepare for the 9-hour raid.
This is how Smith described the FBI op order:
Smith purposely omitted key details of the order–which, of course, Judge Cannon has.
Smith omitted that agents were instructed to bring “Standard Issue Weapon, Ammo, Handcuffs.”
He also omitted that the order instructed agents to have their “Badge and Credentials (concealed).”
Smith left out that agents brought “medium and large sized bolt cutters.”
Smith crucially omitted instructions related to how agents should handle Secret Service.
Screenshot shows how Smith described it.
But this is from the FBI op order: Should USSS provide resistance or interfere with FBI timeline or accesses, FBI…will engage with USSS [point of contact.]
And as far as Mar-a-Lago staff, here is what FBI op order included:
“Should MAL Guest Reception be unwilling to provide a list of occupied guest rooms, FBI Search Team will knock on each guest room door to determine occupation status. FBI will request a map, list of rooms and skeleton key/card for all rooms from MAL staff. An FBI [investigator] with lock-picking equipment will be on scene.”
Defense now can file responses that not only call out Smith’s distortions in the motion but perhaps compel more discovery related to the raid. And Cannon could very well schedule a hearing on the quasi-gag order request that will backfire on Smith. Really stupid move.
