2023-07-18 15:25:02
Former US President Donald Trump claims to have received a letter from Special Prosecutor Jack Smith informing him that he was personally targeted by the investigation into the assault on the Capitol in Washington on January 6, 2021.
Attorney Smith sent a letter (once again, on a Sunday night!) stating that I am the TARGET of the January 6 grand jury investigation, the ex-president wrote on his network, Truth Social.
Donald Trump, who has not disclosed the letter in question, adds that he expects to be arrested and charged. Asked about the case, a spokesperson for the special prosecutor’s office declined to comment.
The 77-year-old ex-president claims to have only four short days to appear before the grand jury. He has not disclosed the specific motives for which he is being targeted; people who receive this type of missive generally have the opportunity to come forward and explain themselves before formal charges are brought against them.
On January 6, 2021, thousands of supporters of Donald Trump had sown chaos and violence in the Washington Capitol, when elected officials certified the victory of his rival Joe Biden in the presidential election.
I have the right to challenge an election that I believe was rigged and stolen.
A committee of the House of Representatives – dissolved at the beginning of the year by the new Republican majority – looked in 2022 at the role of Donald Trump in the assault on Capitol Hill.
In high-profile hearings, this Democratic-majority panel claimed the former president had whitewashed his supporters with a speech just before the coup and had failed in his duty as commander-in-chief during the coup. ‘assault.
In its final report, this committee considered that Donald Trump should never be able to hold new public office after inciting his supporters to insurrection. Its members also recommended that criminal proceedings be launched against him by the federal courts, in particular for calling for insurrection.
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Donald Trump supporters outside the Capitol on January 6, 2021
Photo : Getty Images / Spencer Platt
Legal troubles pile up
Donald Trump faces 37 charges for keeping confidential documents after leaving the White House. Charges for which he pleaded not guilty in June, exposing himself to a potentially very damaging trial for his presidential campaign in 2024.
A procedural hearing is scheduled for later Tuesday in that case.
The Republican billionaire has also been indicted by a New York State court on several counts of accounting fraud, including in relation to a payment made just before the 2016 presidential election to silence porn actress Stormy Daniels , with whom he had had an affair.
A Georgia prosecutor must also announce by September the result of her investigation into the pressure he allegedly exerted to try to change the result of the 2020 presidential election in this southern United States state.
With information from Archyde.com, CNN and Agence France-Presse
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