一名联邦法官驳回了前总统唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)对行政特权的主张，并下令马克·梅多斯(Mark Meadows)和其他前高级助手在联邦大陪审团面前作证，调查特朗普试图推翻大选的努力1月6日攻击在美国国会大厦，多个知情人士告诉美国广播公司新闻。
特朗普的前幕僚长梅多斯也被传唤其他前助手由特别检察官杰克·史密斯提供与调查相关的证词和文件。
特朗普的法律团队通过维护行政特权对传票提出了挑战，行政特权是总统对他与顾问的通信保密的权利。
据知情人士透露，在上周的一项密封命令中，法官贝里尔·豪厄尔驳回了特朗普对梅多斯和其他一些人的行政特权的主张，包括特朗普的前国家情报总监约翰·拉特克利夫、他的前国家安全顾问罗伯特·奥布莱恩、前高级助手斯蒂芬·米勒以及前副总参谋长兼社交媒体总监丹·斯卡维诺。
消息人士称，特朗普的前助手尼克·卢纳和约翰·麦肯蒂，以及前DHS高级官员肯·库奇内利也在订单之列。
据了解此事的消息人士称，特朗普可能会对该裁决提起上诉。
特朗普的一名发言人在一份声明中说:“DOJ不断超越标准规范，试图破坏长期接受、长期持有的、基于宪法的律师-客户特权和行政特权标准。”。“任何针对特朗普总统的案件都没有事实或法律依据或实质。精神错乱的民主党人和他们在主流媒体中的同志们正在腐蚀法律程序，将司法系统武器化，以便操纵公众舆论，因为他们显然正在输掉这场政治战役。”
梅多斯没有回应美国广播公司的置评请求，代表他的律师也没有回应。拉特克利夫、奥布莱恩、米勒、卢娜、麦肯蒂和库奇内利没有回应美国广播公司的置评请求。代表斯卡维诺的律师拒绝置评。
知情人士告诉美国广播公司新闻，一些被命令作证的助手已经出现在大陪审团面前，但没有回答与前总统互动有关的一些问题，因此现在将被要求返回以获得更多证词。大陪审团的诉讼程序是秘密进行的。
消息人士称，尚不清楚他们每个人掌握的信息量，也不清楚检察官希望对他们进行质询的范围。
美国广播公司新闻(ABC News)此前报道称，今年2月，调查1月6日事件的检察官开始强制特朗普的一些高级助手作证，包括梅多斯、拉特克利夫和奥布莱恩。
此前，豪厄尔法官已经驳回了特朗普关于行政特权的主张，以阻止副总统彭斯的两名高级助手格雷格·雅各布和马克·肖特的证词。据知情人士透露，在拒绝特朗普阻止雅各布和肖特作证的动议时，法官裁定，由现任总统而不是前总统来维护行政特权。
法官此前还裁定，前白宫法律顾问帕特·西波尔隆(Pat Cipollone)及其副手帕特·菲尔宾(Pat Philbin)也必须返回大陪审团回答其他问题，此前特朗普曾辩称他们受到特权保护。
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华盛顿地区法院的新首席法官将接替豪厄尔，他现在将监督与特别顾问调查有关的大陪审团事务。
史密斯是一名资深联邦检察官，也是司法部公共廉政部门的前负责人11月窃听由司法部长梅里克·加兰(Merrick Garland)监督司法部对推翻2020年大选的努力以及特朗普卸任后对机密材料的处理的调查。
据消息人士称，梅多斯在1月份被传唤，是1月6日袭击展开时特朗普身边仅有的助手之一。他也是臭名昭著的2021年1月电话特朗普与佐治亚州国务卿布拉德·拉芬斯佩格的谈话中，特朗普要求Raffensperger为他“找到”足够的选票来赢得该州。
Meadows, other top Trump aides ordered to testify in Jan. 6 probe as judge rejects claims of executive privilege
A federal judge has rejected former President Donald Trump's claims of executive privilege and has ordered Mark Meadows and other former top aides to testify before a federal grand jury investigating Trump's efforts to overturn the election leading up to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, multiple sources familiar with the matter tell ABC News.
Meadows, Trump's former chief of staff, was subpoenaed along with the other former aides by Special counsel Jack Smith for testimony and documents related to the probe.
Trump's legal team had challenged the subpoenas by asserting executive privilege, which is the right of a president to keep confidential the communications he has with advisers.
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In a sealed order last week, Judge Beryl Howell rejected Trump's claim of executive privilege for Meadows and a number of others, including Trump's former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe, his former national security adviser Robert O'Brien, former top aide Stephen Miller, and former deputy chief of staff and social media director Dan Scavino, according to sources familiar with the matter.
Former Trump aides Nick Luna and John McEntee, along with former top DHS official Ken Cuccinelli, were also included in the order, the sources said.
Trump is likely to appeal the ruling, according to sources briefed on the matter.
"The DOJ is continuously stepping far outside the standard norms in attempting to destroy the long accepted, long held, Constitutionally based standards of attorney-client privilege and executive privilege," a Trump spokesperson said in a statement. "There is no factual or legal basis or substance to any case against President Trump. The deranged Democrats and their comrades in the mainstream media are corrupting the legal process and weaponizing the justice system in order to manipulate public opinion, because they are clearly losing the political battle."
Meadows did not respond to ABC's request for comment and neither did an attorney representing him. Ratcliffe, O'Brien, Miller, Luna, McEntee and Cuccinelli did not respond to ABC's request for comment. An attorney representing Scavino declined to comment.
PHOTO: Former White House Chief of Staff during the Trump administration Mark Meadows speaks at FreedowmWorks headquarters on Nov. 14, 2022 in Washington, D.C.
Former White House Chief of Staff during the Trump administration Mark Meadows speaks at FreedowmWorks headquarters on Nov. 14, 2022 in Washington, D.C.
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Some of the aides that have been ordered to testify have already appeared before the grand jury but did not answer some questions related to interactions with the former president, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News, and thus would now be required to return for additional testimony. The grand jury proceedings are being held under seal.
It's not clear the amount of information each of them would have, or the scope of what prosecutors want to question them on, the sources said.
ABC News previously reported that in February, prosecutors investigating Jan. 6 moved to compel testimony from a number of top Trump aides, including Meadows, Ratcliffe and O'Brien.
Previously, Judge Howell had rejected Trump's claim of executive privilege to block the testimony of two top aides to Vice President Pence, Greg Jacob and Marc Short. In rejecting Trump's motion to block the testimony of Jacob and Short, the judge ruled that it is up to the current president to assert executive privilege, not a former president, according to sources familiar with the proceedings.
The judge also previously ruled that former White House counsel Pat Cipollone, along with his deputy Pat Philbin, also had to return to the grand jury to answer additional questions after Trump previously argued they were protected by privilege.
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Howell is being succeeded by a new chief judge on the D.C. district court, who will now oversee grand jury matters related to the special counsel's probes.
Smith, a longtime federal prosecutor and former head of the Justice Department's public integrity section, was tapped in November by Attorney General Merrick Garland to oversee the Justice Department's investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election and Trump's handling of classified materials after leaving office.
Meadows, who according to sources was subpoenaed in January, was one of the only aides around Trump on Jan. 6 as the attack unfolded. He was also party to the infamous January 2021 phone call that Trump had with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in which Trump asked Raffensperger to "find" him enough votes to win the state.
