Former President Donald Trump said his ex-chief of staff, Mark Meadows, would be a "weakling" to take an immunity deal with federal prosecutors after he reportedly reached such an arrangement with special counsel Jack Smith.
Trump, in his Truth Social posts and comments outside his New York civil trial, reacted to an ABC News report that Meadows testified before a grand jury impaneled to hear evidence in the Trump 2020 election subversion case, doing so after being given an immunity deal.
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Trump: "I spoken to Mark Meadows many, many times over the years, and he strongly believed the election was rigged" pic.twitter.com/nSFJVeKihV
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"I've spoken to Mark Meadows many, many times over the years, and he strongly believed the election was rigged," Trump told reporters before heading into his civil fraud trial brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James.
Before arriving at the Manhattan Supreme Court, Trump also cast doubt about Meadows cooperating with prosecutors but appeared open to believe Meadows was capable of working out a deal with Smith's team.
“Some people would make that deal, but they are weaklings and cowards, and so bad for the future of our Failing Nation. I don’t think that Mark Meadows is one of them, but who really knows? MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
The report came hours after Trump sat face-to-face with his former attorney-turned-foe Michael Cohen for the first time in five years at his $250 million civil business fraud trial in New York.
The report of Meadows's alleged immunity deal with prosecutors also comes after three of Trump's co-defendant attorneys in his Georgia racketeering case — Sidney Powell, Kenneth Chesebro, and Jenna Ellis — all took plea agreements just days apart from each other and agreed to "testify truthfully" at a future trial in the case brought by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.
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Meadows is also a co-defendant in the Georgia case that alleges Trump and allies engaged in a scheme to subvert President Joe Biden's election victory in the state.
The day ended in Trump's civil trial with a series of exchanges between Cohen and Trump's attorney, Alina Habba, who is slated to continue cross-examination of the one-time Trump Organization insider on Wednesday.