Special counsel Jack Smith asked a judge to quickly set limits on what Donald Trumps team can do with the evidence that will be shared with them in the election subversion case against the former president . The disclosure rules they have proposed they said are particularly important in this case because the defendant has previously issued public statements on social media regarding witnesses judges attorneys and others associated with legal matters pending against him . A Trump spokesperson responded in a statement early Saturday morning saying the former presidents post was the definition of political speech and not related to matters of the case . Trump pleaded not guilty Thursday in a Washington DC courthouse to four charges brought against him days earlier by Smith including conspiracy to defraud the United States as part of his investigation into efforts to overturn the election leading up to the January attack on the US Capitol . On Friday evening he delivered an unusually short speech at a fundraiser hosted by the Alabama Republican Party that focused heavily on his legal issues in the wake of his arraignment . The prosecutors argued that if Trump wanted to change the restrictions she approved he could come back to the court to ask for the order to be modified . The filing said that if he wanted to . change the order he could . come back and ask for an order to . ask for it to change he could be modified he could ask for a . change he would not be able to change it to be amended . The special counsel said that he would be allowed to change . to change his restrictions to be revised. The prosecutors said he could change the . restrictions he would no longer want to change to the judge to ask to change that he could. to ask the judge. to change what he wanted. The judge to provide Trumps lawyers to provide an explanation of what he had previously said .