Justice Department indictments and other criminal charges are starting to pile up against former President Donald Trump, currently the Republican frontrunner for the 2024 presidential election. He announced yesterday that he expects to be indicted and arrested by Special Counsel Jack Smith’s January 6 grand jury, after receiving a “target letter” from investigators on July 17, Politico reported. Such a letter, “almost always means an arrest and indictment,” he wrote on Truth Social July 17.
None of these legal actions has anything to do with crimes Trump has allegedly committed. Rather, Trump is considered a threat by the London-Washington Establishment, mainly because of his loud attacks on the Biden administration for escalating the war in Ukraine and for “dragging the United States into World War III"—charges which are resonating with large sectors of the Republican Party and with the population in general, just as similar statements from Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. are doing with sectors of the Democratic Party, as well as with independents.
The plan is to weigh Trump down with multiple legal cases—possibly jailing him—so that it will be impossible for him to campaign. It’s not yet clear what he might be charged with in the Jan. 6 case—possibly obstruction of justice, related to his activities in the days leading up to Jan. 6, and on that day itself, including reportedly pressuring then-Vice President Mike Pence to block certification of Biden’s electoral victory.
Trump’s lawyers were in court in Fort Pierce, Florida yesterday to request that his trial on federal charges of keeping classified national security files at his Mar-a-Lago home be postponed until after the 2024 election. In that case, Trump was indicted on 37 counts under the Espionage Act. Lawyers for the prosecution want the trial to take place in mid-December. Georgia’s Supreme Court has also turned down Trump’s request to shut down the Fulton County investigation into his alleged 2020 election tampering, and an indictment in this case is also likely.
