Hello, well, we'd planned to answer some listener questions in our episode today, and

don't worry, we're still going to get to that.

But while we were recording, we got the breaking news that Donald Trump received a target

letter from Jack Smith in connection with the former president's efforts to overturn the

2020 election.

So here are live reactions to that news.

Wow, I hate to interrupt, but I just got a notification on my phone that Donald Trump has

truth-social truth that he has just gotten a target letter from Jack Smith's team about January 6.

Here we are, in the middle of this bag of tests, with a plan to have listener questions.

By the way, the hardest part of that question is the thing called truth.

True, although I guess it is true.

So my take on this is he is reporting that he got a target letter.

That seems like the, in some way, the least important, because of course he is a target of the

federal January 6 investigation. The import of a target letter, though, is that it is something

that is a common practice at the Department of Justice for some prosecutors under what's called

the Justice Manual to issue that to people before they're indicted. It doesn't mean just because

you get a target letter that you will be indicted, but it is certainly ominous. If you are

defense counsel, that's what you're preparing for. I think the more ominous part is that Donald

Trump reports that he was given essentially an opportunity to appear in the grand jury,

but he has to do so as according to him within four days. That to me suggests, given the time frame,

that they're saying, look, you're a target. You have an opportunity to testify if you want to.

Obviously, you can decline it. Almost every defendant does decline it. Donald Trump certainly

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