New twist in the Capitol affair: Donald Trump would have been informed that the federal investigation is targeting him personally. The former US president claims to have received a letter from prosecutors informing him of his role in the investigations surrounding the assault on the building housing Congress in Washington on January 6, 2021.
The real estate mogul spoke about it in a post on his Truth Social network. He assures that this procedure “almost always” leads to an indictment. “Jack Smith, Joe Biden’s nutcase Justice Department prosecutor, sent a letter … indicating that I am the target of the grand jury investigation on January 6,” he wrote in his letter. publication.
Donald Trump has already been charged in another federal investigation, the one in which he is accused of having refused to return documents he allegedly kept when he left the White House, despite court injunctions.
He pleaded not guilty to the charges against him in mid-June and faces a historic and potentially very damaging trial for his 2024 US presidential campaign.
The Republican billionaire has also been indicted by New York State justice on several charges of accounting fraud, in connection with a payment made before the 2016 presidential election aimed at silencing an actress of porn movies. A Georgia prosecutor must also announce by September the result of his investigation into the pressure he exerted to try to change the result of the 2020 presidential election in this southern state.