Congressman who served on Jan. 6 committee has a warning about witness tampering in Trump case

It was wise for the Florida court to order Trump not to communicate about the case with any potential witnesses, Congressman Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee and a former member of the January 6th Select Committee, said Tuesday.

Raskin was on CNN being interviewed for The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer when the host asked him about the court's order binding Trump's speech with any possible witnesses, including his co-defendant, Walt Nauta.

"Are you concerned about possible witness tampering?" Blitzer asked Raskin.

"Well, we certainly saw a lot of those kinds of conversations taking place in the January 6th committee. And so I understand that the judge in the documents case has ordered Trump not to communicate with other witnesses and prospective witnesses in the case. And I think that that's wise," Raskin replied. "The reason courts do that is they don't want people coordinating their stories, revising the facts of what actually happened, but they want people to testify to what they actually know themselves."

To clarify, Blitzer asked the question again: "So you are concerned that Trump could engage in witness tampering?"

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Raskin replied, Well -- I mean, if past is prologue, you know, we certainly saw during the January 6th committee hearings efforts to influence witnesses in different ways and to encourage witnesses to do certain things and discourage witnesses to do others. So look, I think it's a natural anxiety that courts should have in any case. And that warning lies in any criminal prosecution where a defendant is told, don't mess with the witnesses."

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