People familiar with the probe said investigators are examining the former president’s conversations with lawyers and advisers and have seized phone records of top aides.
, according to two people familiar with the matter. Both spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation.
A Trump spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment. A Justice Department spokesman and a lawyer for Meadows both declined to comment.The revelations raise the stakes of an already politically fraught probe involving a former president, still central to his party’s fortunes, In trying to understand how and why Trump partisans and lawyers sought to change the outcome of the election, one person familiar with the probe said, investigators also want to understand, at a minimum, what Trump told his lawyers and senior officials to do.
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