The special counsel’s investigation into the aftermath of the 2020 election has been examining whether Trump and his allies conspired to overturn the results of the election, including efforts to put forward fake electors in states Trump lost and a pressure campaign against his then-Vice President Mike Pence to try to overturn the election when Congress certified Joe Biden’s Electoral College win on January 6. The special counsel has also probed Trump’s knowledge that he lost the 2020 election, pressure within the Justice Department to help with efforts to overturn the election and fundraising efforts after the election. In addition, prosecutors have focused on a chaotic December 2020 Oval Office meeting in the final days of the Trump administration, in which Trump’s advisers discussed seizing voting machines, naming a special counsel to investigate voter fraud and invoking martial law as part of the efforts to overturn the election. The grand jury is continuing to hear from witnesses, and a close Trump adviser is expected to appear on Thursday in the special counsel’s investigation into the aftermath of the 2020 election, two sources familiar with the matter tell . Will Russell, who has testified to the grand jury at least twice before, served as a special assistant to the president as well as deputy director of advance and trip director in the Trump White House. He has continued to work for Trump after he left office. Russell’s attorney declined to comment. Dozens of witnesses have spoken to prosecutors and testified before the grand jury in the 2020 election investigation, including a lengthy list of top aides to Trump in the White House as well as Pence. Timothy Parlatore, an attorney for Bernard Kerik, told ‘s Kaitlan Collins on “The Source” Tuesday night that his client Kerik – a former New York City police commissioner and longtime friend of Trump’s former attorney Rudy Giuliani – worked alongside Giuliani in the weeks after the 2020 presidential election to find any evidence of voter fraud that would swing the race for Trump. “He hasn’t done anything wrong. He was an investigator and everything he did was legal and appropriate,” Parlatore, The target letter from federal prosecutors to Trump makes clear that prosecutors are focused on the former president’s actions in the investigation into overturning the 2020 election – and not just of those around him who tried to stop his election loss. The target letter cites three statutes that Trump could be charged A target letter from federal prosecutors indicates that a person could face charges related to the investigation into the aftermath of the 2020 election or other crimes. Trump himself claims under the United States Constitution Trump’s attorneys received a target letter Sunday evening telling them their client could face charges in the investigation into the aftermath of the 2020 election.
Donald Trump said he is a target of the special counsel’s criminal probe into the aftermath of the 2016 election.
