Third indictment against Donald Trump. The troubles for the former president could be even more serious than the charges he faces in Florida (illegal theft of top-secret documents) in a federal trial but headed by a local judge, Aileen Cannon, who is headed by the former Republican president was nominated herself and who has done so has already proven to be favorable to him in the court decisions of recent months. In fact, this time the charges will relate to even more serious facts: the attempt to change the results of the November 2020 presidential election and the attack on Congress on January 6, 2021, an extreme attempt to officially announce Joe Biden’s victory to prevent . Events that took place in Washington and for which Trump should therefore be indicted in the capital’s court. A court that has hitherto severely condemned the protagonists of the attack on Congress two years ago.
Trump himself broke the news of the likely indictment in a long and furious post on Truth Social, his digital platform. The former President wrote that Sunday night, returning from a campaign rally, he found a letter from Special Attorney Jack Smith’s office (he continues to call him “a mentally ill individual”) telling him he was the target of a criminal investigation is the events of January 6, 2021 and calls for him to appear before a grand jury within four days.
Before Trump rails against what he once again defines as an “unprecedented witch hunt” orchestrated by Biden’s Justice Department (he says injustice), who will be his opponent in the 2014 presidential election, he claims that news like the one he’s ahead of two days almost always means arrest and indictment.
It would be the President’s third arrest and immediate release after announcing the trial after New York’s financial and tax crimes and Florida’s illegal possession of classified documents. It follows the long-awaited indictment in Georgia over Trump’s request for that southern state’s election officials to “procure” the 11,780 votes he needed to beat Biden.
After the work of two grand juries, Atlanta (and Fulton County) District Attorney Fani Willis appears ready to formalize her allegations: an attempt by Trump’s attorneys to block the case and transfer the case to another judge was dismissed in a flash The decision was made in just three days and unanimously by the Southern Supreme Court.
In the case of the first federal indictment – Florida’s – Special Attorney Jack Smith confirmed the case and settled the charges shortly after Trump himself admitted he was under investigation. This time, the special prosecutor’s office is currently silent. Perhaps we’ll wait and see if Trump chooses to appear before the grand jury.
According to the experts who followed the parliamentary inquiries on January 6, and on the basis of the sentences already passed on the attackers of Congress, there is a hypothesis that Trump could be convicted of crimes of obstruction of institutional procedures, conspiracy to implement government fraud, etc could be charged with possibly inciting insurrection.
Federal investigators have gathered evidence and leads through numerous testimonies, including from former Trump collaborators. Among these, that of Rudy Giuliani (which lasted two days, Corriere reported in the daily America China newsletter yesterday) and that of his son-in-law Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump’s husband, would have been very important.
Testimony, not always necessarily against him: In order to get a conviction, it must be shown that Trump knew he had lost the election. And when several witnesses have reported to that effect, to our knowledge, Kushner claimed that the then-President was convinced he had been fraudulently beaten by Biden.
Finally, today, Trump’s attorneys and the federal prosecutors prosecuting him will meet for the first time in the Fort Pierce, Fla., courthouse before Judge Aileen Cannon. Procedural issues are being debated, but ones of major political importance: the former president’s lawyers are calling for the trial to be postponed until after the 2024 presidential election, arguing that in the heated US climate it is impossible to have an impartial jury during Jack Smith’s office objects and demands that the trial be confirmed to begin in December.