Special counsel accuses Trump of 'threatening' ex-chief of staff Mark Meadows

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Special counsel Jack Smith's team is accusing former President Donald Trump of threatening Trump's former chief of staff, Mark Meadows, after an ABC News report on Tuesday detailed some of what Meadows allegedly told investigators about Trump and the 2020 presidential election, including that he repeatedly told Trump in the weeks following the election that allegations of significant voting fraud coming to them were baseless.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/special-c...reatening-chief-staff-mark/story?id=104348706

 

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In their filing Wednesday, Smith's team argued that Trump is now trying to "use external influences to distort the trial in his favor," and that "These actions, particularly when directed against witnesses and trial participants, pose a grave threat to the very notion of a fair trial based on the facts and the law."

Trump has a "long and well-documented history of using his public platform to target disparaging and inflammatory comments at perceived adversaries," and "When the defendant does so, harassment, threats, and intimidation foreseeably and predictably follow," Smith's team wrote.