In a rambling tirade, Donald Trump confirmed that he's now the target of a criminal probe in the Jan. 6 case. He could testify before the grand jury, but as stevebenen writes, that's unlikely to happen.
Special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into Donald Trump’s classified documents scandal has already led to the former president’s criminal indictment. The question has long been whether Smith’s parallel probe, into the Republican efforts to overturn the 2020 election, would generate the same result.Donald Trump on Tuesday said he received a target letter in special counsel Jack Smith’s Jan.
To be sure, it’s impossible to know when to believe the former president’s claims. In fact, ahead of his first indictment in New York, the RepublicanThat said, in this instance, Trump’s latest claim appears to be true: NBC Newswith two sources with direct knowledge of the matter that he really did receive a target letter from the special counsel’s office.
At first blush, this might not seem especially surprising. Smith and his office have been pursuing this case for months, and it’s been widely assumed that the former president was and is at the center of the investigation. By this reasoning, didn’t everyone already know that Trump was a target of the probe?
The angle to keep in mind, however, is that in the world of criminal prosecutions, “target” is a term of art. Revisiting our
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