Special counsel Jack Smith's Washington, D.C., grand jury has delivered a four-count, 45-page indictment against Donald Trump.
“Donald Trump lashed out at Department of Justice (DOJ) Special Counsel Jack Smith after hinting that that federal charges were imminent shortly before the four-count indictment was made public.
In his second federal investigation this year, a grand jury indicted Trump on four charges in the Capitol siege probe, which include conspiracy to defraud the United States; conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding; obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding; and conspiracy against rights.
Trump, who denies all wrongdoing, has repeatedly criticized the special counsel's probe, referring to it as politically motivated. In one of his Tuesday posts, he accused Smith of "Prosecutorial Misconduct."
Smith led the Capitol riot investigation along with Trump's federal classified-documents case in which the former president was indicted over his handling of classified information. Trump has pleaded not guilty to all 37 original charges in the documents case.
In one post on Truth Social, he lashed out at Smith, accusing the special counsel of trying to interfere with the 2024 election by ‘putting out yet another Fake indictment’.
‘I hear that Deranged Jack Smith, in order to interfere with the Presidential Election of 2024, will be putting out yet another Fake Indictment of your favorite President, me’. Trump said in a post, ‘Why didn't they do this 2.5 years ago? Why did they wait so long? Because they wanted to put it right in the middle of my campaign’.
In the statement, Trump's representatives questioned the timing of the indictment and referred to it as a ‘disgraceful and unprecedented political targeting’". -Maura Zurick, Newsweek
The indicates also lists six unnamed co-conspirators, including four lawyers, a justice department official, and a political consultant.
Now that Americans are finally beginning to recognize that their democracy is a fraud, they do not rule over themselves, and that they haven’t done so for a very long time, perhaps their perception of the United States holding the moral high ground over countries such as China, Russia, and Iran because of its supposed commitment to “freedom and democracy” will belatedly change as well.