Preet Bharara, former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, predicted on Sunday that the Department of Justice is “on a path” to charge former President Donald Trump.
NBC News’s Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd asked Bharara about a federal judge declining the DOJ’s request on Friday to hold the former president’s team in contempt for failing to comply with a grand jury subpoena calling for the return of classified documents.
“I guess the question is [Trump has] already admitted he took it. What do you think justice is waiting for?” Todd asked.
Bharara responded that the “number of very seasoned prosecutors, two of whom I worked with very closely,” brought on to determine if a case can be tried in court made him believe “there was a serious possibility that the Justice Department was on a path to charge.”
“And I think it’ll happen in a month,” the former federal prosecutor said.
Special counsel Jack Smith was tapped last month by Attorney General Merrick Garland to oversee the Justice Department’s Jan. 6 investigation and the criminal inquiry of Trump’s possible mishandling of classified documents.
Smith has been sending subpoenas to local officials in key presidential swing states for any and all communications involving Trump and his alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election. The subpoenas were issued to top elections officials in Michigan’s Wayne County, Wisconsin’s Milwaukee and Dane counties, Arizona’s Maricopa County, and Pennsylvania’s Allegheny County.
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