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Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner

Unpacking Trump's Target Letter Charges

Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner

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🗓️ 25 July 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Donald Trump received a target letter from Special Counsel Jack Smith warning him he's about to be indicted for his illegal schemes to try and stay in power after the 2020 election. Glenn breaks down the 3 charges in the letter. Then, as the January 6th House Select Committee wrapped up their investigation - they referred some of Trump's crimes to the Department of Justice. One of the charges they referred was left out of the target letter sent to Trump. Glenn explains - there's a reason that this one charge is very important.

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0:00.0

It's time for Justice Matters, with former Federal Prosecutor and MSNBC analyst,

0:05.0

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0:15.6

Donald Trump received a target letter warning him he's about to be indicted for trying to stay in

0:20.1

power after the 2020 election. Glenn explains the three charges in the letter.

0:25.9

So, friends, Special Counsel Jack Smith delivered a target letter to former President Donald

0:31.2

Trump, putting him on notice of just some of the charges he may be indicted for.

0:38.4

Indicted by the grand jury in Washington, D.C., investigating all things in correction.

0:46.0

What happened in the run-up to January 6th, on January 6th, and in the aftermath of January 6th.

0:54.6

And, when we heard about some of what was included in this target letter, the three crimes that

1:01.1

Jack Smith listed, and frankly, when we heard that there were some crimes that weren't listed

1:08.2

in the target letter, some of it was expected, but some of it, frankly, wasn't.

1:14.4

So, what I want to do, friends, is a little bit of a deep dive today into this target letter,

1:19.4

and what it means that three crimes were included in the target letter, and one crime like insurrection

1:27.1

was not mentioned, because none of this is intuitive. So, let's go to a little bit of a team

1:35.4

justice law school class today to try to figure out precisely what this target letter means,

1:42.8

and importantly, what it doesn't mean. So, let me start with the assertion that it's not really

1:49.7

all that intuitive. Why do I say that? Well, if you hear that somebody robbed the bank,

1:57.0

somebody stole a car, or somebody killed, somebody else, and you hear about charges like

2:05.2

bank robbery, auto theft, murder, all of that is pretty intuitive, right? Pretty understandable,

2:13.4

pretty expected, but then when you hear about crimes that were included in Jack Smith's target

2:22.1

letter to Donald Trump, crimes like conspiracy to commit offenses against and defraud the United

2:28.4

States, witness tampering, deprivation of rights under color of law. All right, all of that is

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