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Hugo Lowell in Washington

Trump gets access to sealed documents on witness threats in Mar-a-Lago case

White man with blue suit and red tie.
Donald Trump speaks at his Mar-a-Lago estate, in Palm Beach, Florida, last week. Photograph: Rebecca Blackwell/AP

Special counsel prosecutors have produced to Donald Trump a sealed exhibit about threats to a potential trial witness after the federal judge overseeing his prosecution for retaining classified documents ordered the exhibit turned over despite the prosecutors’ objections, people familiar with the matter said.

The exhibit was a point of contention because it detailed a series of threats made against a witness who could testify against the former president at trial, and the matter is the subject of a criminal investigation by a US attorney’s office. Prosecutors had wanted to withhold it from Trump’s lawyers.

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