January 6, Election Interference Could Be Focus of New Trump Indictments
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🗓️ 19 July 2023
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This week the former president and current presidential candidate said he received a letter informing him he is a target in Special Counsel Jack Smith's investigation of the January 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Such a letter often precedes an indictment.
And a grand jury in Fulton County, Georgia, may soon consider an election interference case there that could lead to yet another indictment of Trump.
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| 0:00.0 | It's easy to lose track of the seriousness of the legal cases involving former president |
| 0:10.8 | Donald Trump, in part because there are just so many. |
| 0:13.6 | Another day, another looming indictment for Donald J. Trump. |
| 0:16.7 | This is your monthly Trump indictment. |
| 0:19.0 | I will hire Republicans in Congress, reacting to the news. |
| 0:21.6 | Donald Trump could be indicted again. |
| 0:23.0 | You're probably used to it. |
| 0:24.4 | That was the reaction after Donald Trump announced this week that he received a letter from |
| 0:28.1 | special counsel, Jack Smith. |
| 0:30.8 | Smith had already brought federal charges against Trump for allegedly possessing classified |
| 0:35.6 | documents and stonewalling the federal government's attempts to get them back. |
| 0:40.0 | This new letter notified Trump that he is a target in another investigation. |
| 0:44.4 | The one looking into the January 6th attack on the West Capitol and the effort to overturn |
| 0:48.7 | the 2020 presidential election. |
| 0:51.2 | In the face of the most recent news, many Republicans returned to familiar talking points. |
| 0:55.8 | Now Speaker Kevin McCarthy suggested it was a political prosecution. |
| 0:59.8 | President Trump went up in the polls and was actually surpassing President Biden for re-election. |
| 1:04.4 | So what do they do now? |
| 1:05.8 | Weaponize government. |
| 1:06.8 | Go after their number one opponent. |
| 1:08.8 | But there were signs of a slight change in tone. |
| 1:12.0 | Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who's running against Trump for the 2024 nomination, said |
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