According to new reporting from the Wall Street Journal this week, Garland-appointed DOJ Special Counsel Jack Smith and his team have finally finished collective testimonies and various other evidence in their case against scandal-plagued former President Donald Trump, in the case concerning the trove of classified, top-secret government documents Trump stole and stashed away at his Mar-a-Lago resort turned post-White House home at the tumultuous end of his presidential term.
To make matters that much worse for the former president, who is already thoroughly steeped in legal woes from every conceivable direction, the Journal confirms that Donald’s closest allies and insiders are bracing for his indictment” and have already begun to search for ways “to fundraise off a prosecution.”
On Monday of this week, the New York Times dropped reporting that confirmed the US Department of Justice had issued subpoenas for financial documents pertaining to business dealings and transactions that took place between Trump’s company and seven overseas countries. The Times confirmed that these subpoenas were in connection to the DOJ’s investigation into the infamous stolen documents.
The Special Counsel document investigation has seen testimonies from multiple Trump aides, attorneys, and even Mar-a-Lago staff members, with many of those interviews going down in recent weeks, as the investigation seriously ramped up, seemingly in preparation for the end of the probe.
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Recent developments have indicated that the Special Counsel is focusing specifically on possible charges of Obstruction of Justice in this particular case, as recent reporting confirmed that the National Archives and Records Administration turned over a trove of communications to the DOJ, indicating that Trump and his staff were fully aware of the proper, legal process involved in declassifying government documents, further indicating that Trump knowingly violated the law despite having full knowledge of the correct way to proceed with such a task.
Ultimately, the decision regarding an official criminal indictment against former President Donald Trump rests with Attorney General Merrick Garland, though, an indictment will have to come at the recommendation of a federal grand jury.
In addition to the document investigation that is now coming to a close, Donald Trump remains under investigation by the Justice Department and Special Counsel Smith for his overall attempts to overthrow the 2020 presidential election and his involvement in the deadly January 6th attack on the Capitol.
Read the full report from the Wall Street Journal here.
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