![]() ![]() As part of the 2020 election investigation, a grand jury at the federal courthouse in Washington, D.C., has heard testimony from high-profile former Trump administration officials, ex-White House attorney Pat Cipollone and Trump’s Vice President Mike Pence. Smith is leading the prosecution also in that case. Trump, the front-runner for the Republican nomination to face Biden, a Democrat, in the 2024 election, was charged last month with unlawfully retaining national defense documents after he left office in 2021 and conspiring to obstruct government efforts to retrieve them. District Judge Aileen Cannon, who is presiding over charges that Trump mishandled classified information and obstructed justice. Later on Tuesday, defense attorneys and federal prosecutors are due to make their first appearance in Florida before U.S. Peter Zeidenberg, a former federal prosecutor, said receiving a target letter means the individual should “presume that you’re going to get indicted, unless you give us a damn good reason why we shouldn’t.” His attorneys could not immediately be reached for comment.Ī spokesperson for Smith’s office declined to comment. Smith “sent a letter (again, it was Sunday night!) stating that I am a TARGET of the January 6th Grand Jury investigation,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social media site. ![]()
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