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Special counsel Jack Smith provided a raft of new evidence to District Judge Aileen Cannon on Friday that former President Donald Trump needs to be placed under a gag order in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case — and specifically, that his conspiracy theories and attacks on law enforcement have led to racist threats against a judge overseeing another of his cases. Smith moved for the gag order from Cannon, a right-wing judge appointed by Trump who has been accused of repeatedly tilting the trial in the former president’s favor, after Trump and his allies began pushing a groundless conspi…

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