Attorneys for Donald Trump Monday morning entered the U.S. Dept. of Justice, as expectations grow the ex-president could soon be charged in his unlawful removal, retention, and refusal to return hundreds of classified and top secret documents.
CBS News chief election and campaign correspondent Robert Costa reports sources say Special Counsel Jack Smith its expected to reach a decision on charging Trump in the case soon.
“Trump’s lawyers just spotted by @CBSNews entering the Justice Department, per @RobLegare who is on site,” Costa tweeted at 10:09 AM ET. He says that “comes as sources tell me the special counsel is moving toward a charging decision in the classified documents case.”
Citing sources, Costa adds, “Trump’s lawyers are expected to raise concerns about how prosecutors have handled atty-client questions during the grand jury but there is no sign the special counsel is going to waver from how he and his team have handled the crime-fraud exception…”
This is where the laser focus of world attention is today, folks. We may be having a very different conversation in just the next few hours. Don’t forget, Jack Smith’s grand jury is reconvening this week and that is scarcely a coincidence.
Indictments will be from a federal grand jury, not from DOJ headquarters. The lawyers won’t show up for indictments – AT THE COURTHOUSE – without a ton of tame reporters.
Jack Smith’s grand jury is coming back from hiatus. I sincerely believe we can expect a charging decision very soon. On my way now to monitor Truth Social, again, and see if Trumpty is flipping out. Or, if he’s still busy throwing ketchup bottles.
Lock him the F up already!!!!!!
It’s like waiting for the other shoe to drop.
At the end of the “don’t go popping champagne corks yet” article I posted yesterday I ended with a note that I’d like to be proven wrong. Today I’m starting to think that will be the case and a giant bowl of cracked and stirred eggs will get dumped on my shiny bald head. I’m okay with that! I’d assumed that given events during the hiatus Smith would have new evidence to present. That alone could take more than one session, maybe even several. Then would come a summation, laying out the outline/blueprint of the case. Again, I figured that would take at least one session. That would put us into at least next week as grand juries don’t typically meet every day of the week. Smith would then adjourn for a time to let them chew things over, while at the same time he’d be in Garland’s office laying out the whole thing and getting Garland to sign off on whatever charges he wanted to ask for indictments on. Again, that’s something that would likely take more than one day. Probably several and given this isn’t the only thing on Garland’s plate that process would take the better part of a week. That’s why yesterday I figured we were looking at indictments being announced not in several days but several weeks.
Again, I hoped to be proven wrong. It HAS been a month or so since the grand jury last met. Perhaps any new evidence will take less time to present than I’d assumed. Perhaps some of it already had been presented and we’ve only just learned of it. And Smith not only completed his summary to present before asking the grand jury to vote but presented it to Garland and secured his approval for specific charges. Basically, I’m saying perhaps Smith proceeded in a different order than I’d assumed and was ready to go Larry the Cable Guy & “git er done.” I’m now thinking odds are that’s the situation, and we may well see what we’ve all been (most of us impatiently) waiting for – Trump being charged with federal crimes. Felonies! Ok, I’ll say what I’m now thinking… Tick Tock motherf**er!
How it goes down: Smith gets the indictments to Garland, Garland strikes a deal with Trump’s lawyers for any remaining documents and perhaps some silence agreement and …
Trump walks out to run off to his next “Only I can do it” Raduno Fascista Nationalista Bianco event.
/end – prison sentence served : 0 hours, 0 days
Charge him. Try him or allow a plea deal. If not, have a bonfire of all those legal books, full of rules made by white, rich men.