Trump says he’s the target of the special counsel’s probe into the 2020 election aftermath

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🗓️ 19 July 2023

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Former President Trump says he’s been informed by special counsel Jack Smith’s office that he is the target of the criminal investigation into the attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, a sign he could be charged soon. The former President has already been indicted twice, in a New York hush money case and in Smith's probe into Trump's mishandling of classified documents. Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe tells Anderson Cooper whether he thinks the special counsel or the Department of Justice would send a target letter if they didn’t believe they had a strong case. Plus, state prosecutors in Michigan charged the 16 Republicans who served as fake electors in 2020. Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson joins AC360 to react to the charges.

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0:00.0	Good evening after a historic and whirlwind day involving the former president efforts to
0:05.1	overturn the 2020 election.
0:06.8	He says and seen and confirms that the special counsel has informed him he is a target
0:11.3	of the federal investigation to those efforts.
0:13.3	The target letter, as it's known, is the clear assigned to date that the former president
0:17.4	could be indicted.
0:18.4	It's also the first time in history a former president has received such a letter regarding
0:23.1	efforts to overturn an election.
0:24.8	Think about that.
0:25.8	The president in the history of these United States wanted to stay in power none have
0:30.6	been accused of taking the actions that this man did.
0:33.5	We should point out it is not the first time a former president has received a target
0:37.2	letter.
0:38.2	It has happened once before and the former president it happened to is also Donald Trump.
0:44.0	He received that target letter almost two months ago exactly May 19th involving special
0:48.5	counsel Jack Smith's investigation into the mishandling of classified documents that
0:53.4	of course led to an indictment 20 days later.
0:55.9	There was more news today on that investigation as well.
0:58.2	There was a court hearing in Florida attended by an indicted aide to the former president
1:02.2	Walton Aura, but not the former president himself.
1:05.1	A federal judge said the decision on a trial date will come in her words promptly, meaning
1:09.5	at any time.
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