Donald Trumps defense lawyers and special counsel Jack Smith met Thursday in Washington DC without the former presidents team getting any guidance about the timing of a possible indictment . The meeting happened on the same day that the grand jury hearing evidence from the special counsels probe into election subversion efforts by Trump and his allies was seen at the federal courthouse . A court official said that there will not be any grand jury indictment returns on Thursday . Grand jury proceedings are secret and its unclear what Thursdays developments mean for Smiths investigation . This is the second time Trump is facing potential charges brought by Smiths team . The members of Trumps legal team who attended the meeting with Smith were John Lauro and Todd Blanche sources familiar with the matter told . Trumps political and legal strategy has been to delay any possible trials until potentially after the election and to put the Justice Department in an uncomfortable position where they are pursuing a prosecution of President Joe Bidens chief rival in the primary voters are beginning to have their say on the federal investigation . Trump said he did nothing wrong was advised by many lawyers and that an Indictment of me would only further destroy our Country Trump said in detail that an indictment of him would ‘only further destroy the country’s Country’t destroy our country” would ‘only destroy the nation’ by the end of the year’. The indictment of Trump’ve been to ‘underesteresteresting the country,” or to “underesting our country.” the indictment” and that the indictment of the indictment. The prosecution of the criminal case. An indictment of this year” is an ‘indictment’ is a ‘prosecuted
Trump’s legal team meets with special counsel as federal indictment in 2020 election interference probe looms
