(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Former President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he’s expecting the Justice Department to charge him over his alleged attempts to interfere in the 2020 presidential election.
“HORRIFYING NEWS for our Country was given to me by my attorneys. Deranged Jack Smith, the prosecutor with Joe Biden’s DOJ, sent a letter (again, it was Sunday night!) stating that I am a TARGET of the January 6th Grand Jury investigation, and giving me a very short 4 days to report to the Grand Jury, which almost always means an Arrest and Indictment,” Trump said in a statement, also listing the litany of other political-motivated attacks against him over the last seven-plus years.
Trump additionally said he expects to be indicted in Georgia, where he’s under investigation—also for allegedly attempting to meddle in the 2020 election. Trump’s statement comes on the heels of Georgia’s Supreme Court declining to quash a grand jury investigation into him.
“They have now effectively indicted me three times (the DOJ staffed and runs the D.A.’s Office in Manhattan), with a probable fourth coming from Atlanta, where the DOJ are in strict, and possibly illegal, coordination with the District Attorney, whose record on murder and other violent crime is abysmal,” he said.
“THIS WITCH HUNT IS ALL ABOUT ELECTION INTERFERENCE AND A COMPLETE AND TOTAL POLITICAL WEAPONIZATION OF LAW ENFORCEMENT!”
Trump’s statement confirms months of speculation that the DOJ will indict him over the 2020 election.
According to reports, the indictment might not be directly related to Jan. 6.
“Trump’s words are protected by the First Amendment, and his rhetoric — telling the people in the crowd they were “not going to have a country anymore” if they didn’t “fight like hell” — could fit within the realm of heated political rhetoric. Trump also explicitly told the crowd to march “peacefully,” which would make charges even more difficult,” NBC News reported last month.
However, Special Counsel Jack Smith is reportedly probing Trump’s so-called fake elector scheme—referring to Trump’s plan to use alternate electors to challenge the results of controversial results in Nevada, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Arizona.
According to CBS News’s Robert Costa, Murphy is also probing Trump for allegedly considering to use federal authority to seize voting machines.
Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/jd_cashless.
