2023-08-05 16:41:40
Federal prosecutors in the case against former US President Donald Trump for trying to overturn the 2020 election have called for the summary secret after denouncing that the former president has threatened them in the social networks. They warn that the disclosure of new information about the case could put the procedure and its participants at risk.
The prosecutors have used as an argument a message published this past Friday night by the former president on his social network, Truth Social. “If you go for me, I’ll go for you!” he wrote. Trumpall in capital letters, in a message that sources from his campaign consider “by definition an act of exercise of the freedom of expression” without further significance, according to a statement collected by ‘New York Times’.
However, the lawyers have presented to the investigating judge of the case, Tanya S. Chutkan, a screenshot of the message to request a protection measure “particularly important in this case.” They stress that Trump “has previously published messages in social networks against witnessesjudges, lawyers and other people related to legal issues against him”.
Hours earlier, the Trump campaign team had posted another message on Twitter in which it described the prosecutors in charge of the different cases against the former president as “the fraud squad.” The judge has not yet ruled on the petition.
Possible “intimidations”
Precisely, the former White House spokeswoman during the Donald Trump Administration, Stephanie Grisham, has warned that some of the former president’s social media posts could be considered as “intimidations” to witnesses in the case of the assault on the Capitol and the attempts to reverse the result of the 2020 elections.
Grisham has acknowledged that Trump’s publication on Truth Social seemed to him “chilling”. He has assured that he considers this message as an threat to the witnesses. “What other people so to take note of that?”, She said.
“I just don’t understand, does someone have to come out hurt before people take this type of online bullying seriously? (…) I know it is pointing out to the prosecutors but, as someone who receives death threats every other day, it makes me nervous“Grisham told CNN.
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The former president faces a condemns maximum of 20 years in prison for conspiring to prevent the Congress certify the results collected by the polls and a judgment ten years in prison for conspiring against the right to vote. Finally, the fourth charge carries 20 years in prison for attempting to obstruct the certification of ballots.
Trump has ensured that these accusations will not have the slightest impact on his campaign to return to the White House in the presidential election next year, to which right now he starts as the top favorite without discussion for the final nomination of the Republican Party.
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