Jack Smith Accuses Trump Of Threatening Meadows

ABC News reports:

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.

In a filing to the judge presiding over Trump’s federal election interference case in Washington, Smith’s team said Trump’s “harmful” post on Truth Social was trying to “send an unmistakable and threatening message to a foreseeable witness in this case.” Smith’s team argued to U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan that the alleged threat is just one more example of why a limited gag order in the case is needed as soon as possible.

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This Trump post about Mark Meadows is like a checklist of things barred by the (now-suspended) gag order:
1) Direct attack on Smith
2) Calling cooperators “weaklings” and “cowards”
3) Commenting on the substance of Meadows (a known witness’) testimony pic.twitter.com/qYczrXuQGd

— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) October 25, 2023

NEW: Special counsel accuses Trump of ‘threatening’ ex-chief of staff Mark Meadows following @ABC News report. https://t.co/qf30vM6Fvp

— ABC News (@ABC) October 26, 2023