Trump Says He's Likely To Face Criminal Charges Over Jan. 6

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🗓️ 18 July 2023

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Summary

In a post on his social media site, he indicated that he has received word from the Department of Justice that he's a target of the grand jury probe into efforts to overturn the 2020 election. An indictment could come quickly.

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0:00.0	Hello from Colorado. This is Amy from Snowmass Village. This summer I'm trying to
0:07.0	learn all the wildflowers on the open space behind my house. In bloom today is
0:12.5	number 34, the tiny pink flowers of narrow leaf Columbia. This podcast was
0:19.3	recorded at 1.24 pm on Tuesday, July 18. Things may have changed since this
0:25.3	recording, but I will be out looking for the next wildflower in bloom. What a
0:34.0	delightfully peaceful way to pass the afternoon in Colorado. Yeah I'm sorry that
0:37.7	we're gonna dampen the entire thing. That's what we do. Hey there it's the MPR
0:42.1	Politics Podcast. I'm Susan Davis. I cover politics. I'm Dominican
0:45.9	Months and our senior political editor and correspondent. And I'm Carrie
0:49.0	Johnson, National Justice Correspondent. And former President Trump says he has
0:53.2	received another so-called target letter from the Justice Department tied to
0:57.4	their investigation into his role in unsuccessful efforts to fraudulently
1:01.6	overturn the 2020 election. Carrie, we don't know a lot more than that, but we do
1:07.3	know that this is a sign that an indictment is likely on the way. Trump said it
1:11.9	in his own truth social post that he believed an arrest and indictment were
1:16.2	very likely. And if recent history is a guide, this is exactly what happened
1:21.0	before he was charged with respects who alleged willful retention of defense
1:25.6	information and obstruction at Mar-a-Lago. So it's not clear to me whether
1:31.2	Trump's lawyers are gonna ask for a meeting with top Justice Department
1:34.4	brass to try to convince them not to pursue an indictment. That's of course
1:39.0	possible. And something may happen with one or more of these grand juries in
1:43.5	Washington DC. But for right now it does seem like Donald Trump is on a glide
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