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In a new 12-page filing, Department of Justice special counsel Jack Smith is urging U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon to take action to prevent former President Donald Trump from making baseless claims about the FBI supposedly trying to assassinate him. The filing, which Smith submitted to the Southern District of Florida on Friday night, asks Cannon to amend Trump’s conditions of release to make it clear “that [Trump] may not make statements that pose a significant, imminent, and foreseeable danger to law enforcement agents participating in the investigation and prosecution of this case.” He …

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