A secret meeting between Donald Trump's lawyers and special counsel Jack Smith's office sets off alarms across the political and legal world. There was a question of whether something like this would happen after the former president received the target letter informing him that he was very likely to be indicted related to the 2020 election and his behavior leading up to January 6th.

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