Surprise! Well … kinda, anyway. Donald Trump already faces an indictment from special counsel Jack Smith over obstruction and mishandling of classified material in federal court, but that wasn
Surprise! Well … kinda, anyway. Donald Trump already faces an indictment from special counsel Jack Smith over obstruction and mishandling of classified material in federal court, but that wasn’t Smith’s initial focus. At the time when the dispute over the records erupted, Smith already had been tasked with investigating the January 6 riot at the Capitol as a potential criminal conspiracy.
According to Trump, that shoe has finally dropped — or will shortly:
Note that literally none of this statement, other than the target notice and grand-jury summons, has to do with January 6th. That’s likely by design; Trump has gotten himself into trouble talking publicly about his current criminal indictment, and may have learned a lesson from the fallout of the Bret Baier interview.
Trump added more thoughts after this, again none of which pertains to the J6 probe directly either — except in one part:
The only relevant part of this portion relates to his “right to protest an Election I am fully convinced was Rigged and Stolen,” and even that’s not relevant to the riot — unless he wants to claim the riot itself as part of his own protest. One assumes that Jack Smith wants to connect those dots explicitly, but he’d almost certainly welcome any assistance Trump wants to provide, either at the grand jury or in public.
No one disputes Trump’s right to protest an election, both by challenging the results and holding demonstrations.
