Donald Trump receives a target letter from the DOJ over January 6th. The state of Michigan

charges 16 people for calling themselves alternative electors in 2020, and Rhonda Santis takes on

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So apparently Donald Trump's team knew about this since Sunday, but they waited until Tuesday to break the news that they'd received a so-called target letter from special investigator, Jack Smith.

Jack Smith, of course, is the special prosecutor who has brought charges against Trump in the classified documents case down in Florida.

There's a possibility he may also do so up in New Jersey.

And now apparently he is preparing charges against Donald Trump, another arrest, more indictments, along the lines of what Donald Trump did on January 6th.

Now, it is unclear exactly what those charges are going to look like.

According to CNBC, former President Trump on Tuesday said he'd been told he was a target in that January 6th criminal investigation by special counsel, Jack Smith.

Trump suggested he may soon face indictment for the January 6th probe, which is focused on Trump's efforts to overturn his loss in the 2020 election to President Joe Biden.

A spokesman for Smith declined to comment.

Trump wrote that he was given what he

called the horrifying news on Sunday evening by his lawyers. This does raise the question as to why Donald

Trump released that on, you know, Tuesday. I would suspect that it has something to do with the fact

that Ron DeSantis was about to do a rather Ballyhooed interview with Jake Tapper that night.

So a great way to take attention away from your

chief rival is to drop a massive bombshell, another one, into the middle of the campaign. It is,

I will say, an incredible dynamic whereby every time Donald Trump gets indicted, his polls inside the

Republican Party go up, and then his polls kind of generally go down. It's an unbelievable

dynamic. Because, and I understand it, Republicans look at Trump and they see a man who's being targeted over and over and over by Joe Biden's Justice Department, and they say, well, if they're that out to get Trump, then probably I need to defend Trump. The best way to defend Trump is to vote for him because maybe he'll become president, and then he can protect himself from these legal charges. I get the dynamic. I'm just saying that if your chief goal is to win the presidency, maybe nominating the guy who's

under multiple indictments is not like the best general election strategy. We'll get to that in a

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