Early Thursday afternoon, Donald Trump talked up the « productive meeting » he said his legal team had had that morning with the DOJ, which had many buzzing about a.
Early Thursday afternoon, Donald Trump talked up the « productive meeting » he said his legal team had had that morning with the DOJ, which had many buzzing about a possibly soon-to-come indictment in special counsel Jack Smith’s probe of the Jan. 6 Capitol riots, per the Hill. That indictment didn’t come to pass. Instead, new federal charges were handed down later that day to Trump and two co-defendants in the separate Mar-a-Lago classified documents case (also under Smith’s purview), complete with a new indictment that supersedes the old one—a surprising development that saw Trump’s mood radically shift from Thursday morning.
« It’s election interference at the highest level, » Trump told Fox News Digital after the new charges—which include two new obstruction counts and an additional count of willful retention of national defense information—were announced.
