Good evening, everyone, and welcome to the readout.

We have a lot of breaking news tonight, and none of it sounds very good for the twice

impeached, twice indicted, or should I say soon to be Thrice, indicted former president.

That is because NBC News has confirmed that special counsel Jack Smith has informed Trump

that he is a target of the special counsel's investigation into efforts to overturn the

2020 election.

Trump decided to break the news himself via social media post just as he has done with

most of his other recent legal woes, and being named a target almost certainly means he

will face arrest and his third indictment this year.

But this indictment would be far different.

Never in the 247-year history of this country have we faced what Trump attempted to orchestrate

a former president doing everything possible to overturn a free and fair election to try

to stay in power, including unleashing a violent mob of his supporters on the U.S. Capitol,

supporters who were even calling for the hanging of his own vice president.

Meanwhile just today in Michigan, the 16 fake electors Trump tried to use to claim he

had actually won that state were all indicted for their participation.

This comes as lawyers for the former president and the special counsel were battling it out

today in a Florida courtroom in front of Trump appointed Judge Aileen Cannon over whether

Trump could postpone the trial in the classified documents case until after the 2024 election.

But unlike that case, a potential jury trial in this January 6th investigation would take

place here in Washington, D.C. and would probably not be argued in front of a judge who has

shown more favor to the man who appointed her than to the law she swore to uphold.

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