Ex-president’s legal team scrambling to find out whether special counsel has evidence they didn’t know about. Trump has already been charged in a case triggered by a hush money payment to an adult film star. Ex-president has pleaded not guilty to both indictments and denies wrongdoing in every other case against him. Trump, his Republican rivals for the 2024 nomination, and much of America will be waiting for any developments out of a grand jury in Washington, DC, that is meeting Thursday. The ex-president indicated that the target letter he received on Sunday gave him four days to take up an option to testify. The Justice Department has been known to be examining possible violations of the law around conspiracy and obstruction of the congressional proceeding on January 6, 2021, which is part of the witness tampering law, previously reported. A judge denied his new civil trial in the E. Jean Carroll case, a finding that a jury did not reach that he abused and defamed Carroll “seriously” The judge said the vast scope of the investigation “fails to satisfy it,” and whether it is high or low, “whatever it is, fails to satisfy” Trump’s lawyers are appealing all of the rulings against him in the case, and say they are appealing them all. The judge also denied his effort to move the indictment in New York – which charged him with falsifying business records – into federal court into court on Wednesday, saying that the payments to Stormy Daniels had nothing to do with Trump’s former presidential duties. The former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie – one of the rare Trump rivals who has openly criticized the ex- president – told ‘s Wolf Blitzer on Wednesday that he was waiting to examine any charges from Smith before forming a judgment. “My sense is it’ll be a speaking indictment, as we call it in the business, which provides a lot of detail. So, you can really give folks a sense of what the evidence is that backs up the charges,” Christie told ‘The Situation Room’ He said he was not sure that he had put enough in front of the grand jury for them to return an indictment, but suggested that it could come at any time after that. The target letter cites three statutes under which he could be charged pertaining to deprivation of rights; conspiracy to commit an offense against or defraud the United States; and tampering with a witness. This raises the possibility that any election-related case Smith might bring against Trump may be far broader than his camp may have expected, sources told that Will Russell, a former special assistant to Trump in the White House who has continued to work for him, is due to testify for at least the third time. It’s not clear whether he’ll be charged in Georgia over efforts to reverse President Joe Biden’s win there. It is also not clear if he will face charges in Florida over his alleged mishandling of classified documents he hoarded in Florida, sources said. The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that the former president has been named as a target of Smith’s investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election and events leading up to the Capitol attack.
There are signs of a possible third Trump indictment. A grand jury in Washington, D.C., is considering whether to indict the president.
