Attorneys for former President Donald Trump have been told to expect their client to be indicted in connection with his efforts to overturn the 2020 election result at the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack.
Lawyers Todd Blanche and John Laura met with prosecutors from special counsel Jack Smith’s office at the Justice Department on Thursday morning, NBC News reported.
Trump, 77, announced July 18 that his lawyers had been told he was a “target” of the investigation, which Smith is overseeing in addition to a probe of the former president’s hoarding of national security documents at his Mar-a-Lago resort.
All of the indictments against Donald Trump
Hush money case
- The Manhattan district attorney’s case against Donald Trump centers around allegations that the former president orchestrated illegal “catch and kill” payments in a scheme to suppress negative stories about him during the 2016 election that continued while he was in office. The hush money payments were allegedly made to porn star Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal. Trump is facing a total of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first degree, which each carry a maximum sentence of four years behind bars.
Classified docs case
- The federal indictment lodged against former president Donald Trump includes seven charges that carry a maximum 75-year prison sentence if convicted on all counts. The 76-year-old former commander-in-chief was indicted by a federal grand jury in June on criminal charges relating to his alleged mishandling of classified White House documents that were recovered at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida and allegations he tried to obstruct the government’s attempts to retrieve them.
Jan. 6 probe
- Attorneys for former President Donald Trump have been told to expect their client to be indicted in connection with his efforts to overturn the 2020 election result at the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. He could face charges of conspiracy, civil rights violations, and obstruction of justice following a Justice Department investigation into his actions on and before Jan. 6, 2021.
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