Special Counsel Jack Smith has urged a judge to reinstate the partial gag order in the federal election interference case involving Donald Trump.

Smith’s request is based on the former president’s “threatening” social media posts directed at former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows.

In a filing submitted late Wednesday, Smith’s team argued that Trump, aged 77, is taking advantage of the absence of the gag order to convey a clear message to a potential witness in the case, fully aware that it would reach its intended recipient.

On Tuesday, Trump launched a scathing attack on his former ally through a tirade on Truth Social, following reports that Meadows had struck an immunity deal with prosecutors in exchange for providing testimony in the case, the New York Post reported.

Trump’s post read, “Some people would make that deal, but they are weaklings and cowards, and so bad for the future our Failing Nation. I don’t think that Mark Meadows is one of them, but who really knows?”

Last Monday, Washington DC federal court Judge Tanya Chutkan suspended the gag order she had previously imposed in the case after an appeal by Trump’s legal team.

This order would prohibit Trump from making any derogatory statements or attacks against prosecutors, court personnel, their families, or from discussing potential witnesses or testimony related to the case.

Shortly after an ABC report on Tuesday, which indicated that the former chief of staff had informed prosecutors that Trump’s claims of extensive fraud in the 2020 election were baseless, the former president launched a harsh criticism of Meadows.

According to the report, Meadows was offered immunity in exchange for his testimony. However, in their filing on Wednesday, prosecutors neither confirmed nor denied the details presented in the ABC story.

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