According to a Just The News exclusive report, federal prosecutors have notified former President and 2024 candidate Donald Trump that he is a criminal target and likely to be indicted over the mishandling of classified documents.
Trump’s legal team had submitted evidence of alleged witness tampering —but it now sounds like the Justice Department will move forward without delaying the indictment.
From Just The News:
The sources directly familiar with the case told Just the News that the DOJ declined to delay the planned indictment of Trump to investigate allegations that a senior prosecutor working on the case tried to influence a key witness by discussing a federal judgeship with the witness’ lawyer.
That allegation is still pending in a secret case before Chief U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg, the jurist who oversees the federal court in Washington D.C. and the grand juries that convene in that courthouse, the sources said.
An historic federal indictment crafted by Special Counsel Jack Smith could be handed up by a federal grand jury against the 45th president as early as this week, the sources said. Trump has already been indicted in a Manhattan court on charges he falsified business expenses to hide hush money payments to a porn star, and has pleaded innocent.
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Smith’s prosecutorial team informed Trump’s legal team in recent days that the charges against the former president could include a violation of 18 U.S. Code Chapter 37 Section 793 that outlaws the “gathering, transmitting or losing” of national defense information. Other charges being considered involve alleged false statements and obstruction of justice, all claims the president and his team have robustly contested in public and in private.
Trump shared the following on TRUTH Social earlier this week:
“HOW CAN DOJ POSSIBLY CHARGE ME, WHO DID NOTHING WRONG, WHEN NO OTHER PRESIDENTS WERE CHARGED, WHEN JOE BIDEN WON’T BE CHARGED FOR ANYTHING, INCLUDING THE FACT THAT HE HAS 1,850 BOXES, MUCH OF IT CLASSIFIED, AND SOME DATING BACK TO HIS SENATE DAY WHEN EVEN DEMOCRAT SENATORS ARE SHOCKED. ALSO, PRESIDENT CLINTON HAD DOCUMENTS AND WON IN COURT. CROOKED HILLARY DELETED 33,000 EMAILS, MANY CLASSIFIED, AND WASN’T EVEN CLOSE TO BEING CHARGED! ONLY TRUMP – THE GREATEST WITCH HUNT OF ALL TIME!”
This story is developing…
BREAKING Feds inform Trump he is target likely to be indicted as DOJ rebuffs prosecutorial misconduct claim | Just The News https://t.co/vSKBCyZWHU
— John Solomon (@jsolomonReports) June 7, 2023
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