But crucially, it also rests on cooperating witnesses — the former El Chapo associates who saw all of it go down. It’s not fair.”Federal prosecutors’ request Friday to keep these comments from El Chapo’s trial would not be the first time that they have had to ask a judge to keep Trump’s rhetoric out of the courtroom. His intention: to cast doubt on the testimony of one of the prosecutors’ cooperating witnesses, who was also a drug dealer, according to an account of the trial in the New York Times. It was the kind of episode prosecutors across the country feared would happen as a result of Trump’s comments. She called the president’s criticism of cooperating witnesses ignorant of this legal process, “misleading and self-serving,” as well as harmful to the law enforcement he claims to support.

Source: Washington Post September 26, 2018 10:07 UTC