The special prosecutor investigating Trump’s alleged involvement in the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021 and his attempts to falsify the result of the election he lost to Joe Biden has informed him that he is “a target of the investigation” . That expression means that the investigators have obtained evidence that links a person who was a “subject of interest” to one or more crimes. It is, more or less, the equivalent of being declared a “suspect.” Being the “target of the investigation” is not synonymous with being accused. But it is, if it is likely to be. Last month, Trump received the letter just three days before being formally indicted in a Miami court for withholding a series of secret White House documents. As then, it was Trump himself who reported the receipt of the document from the office of special counsel Jack Smith, which investigates the assault on the Capitol and Trump’s attempts to alter the electoral result. And, as on that occasion, Trump spiced up the information by calling Smith “crazed” and writing “Department of Injustice” in reference to the government unit that deals with the fight against crime. Trump has already been indicted for two alleged crimes: fraud of the financing of his campaign in the payment of 130,000 dollars (123,000 euros) to the pornographic actress Stormy Daniels and for the retention of State secrets. The first of the cases is from the State of New York, while the second is from the federal State, which means that the accusations are more serious. If charged for the assault on Congress and the elections, it would also be a federal case. The accusations have been decisive for Trump’s popularity in the 2024 elections to skyrocket, as he himself has stated. The former president is also being investigated in the state of Georgia, again for attempts to falsify the 2020 election result.
This was stated by the president himself in June, when he declared that, after his imputation in the case of the documents, he received seven million dollars (6.2 million euros) in donations. Shortly thereafter, he told a rally that “every time I’m indicted, my popularity skyrockets.”
Trump’s analysis is correct. His lead in the Republican polls is absolute. The one candidate who might have any remote chance of overshadowing him, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is watching his campaign collapse due to a dearth of funding.
Last week, the DeSantis campaign gave the biggest sign of weakness possible: announcing a staff reduction. For now, there is only one candidate who clearly surpasses Trump in voting intention and; above all, in collection: the president, Joe Biden.
Trump’s near-absolute control of the base has also allowed him to lead the Republican Party, whose leadership remains hostile to him. Yesterday, the president of the House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, declared after the news that Trump is “suspicious” that the attitude of Justice is due to the fact that it “has been transformed into a weapon” at the service of Joe Biden.
McCarthy forgot not only to clarify that Trump is the leader only among Republicans, but also his own statements after the assault on the Capitol, when he stated that “the president is responsible for this assault.” Far-right Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene added that “America is worse than China” when it comes to freedoms.
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