Trump campaign says adding new defendant to classified docs case is another attempt to harass former president
Steven Cheung, the press secretary for Trump's 2024 presidential campaign, said in a statement tonight that the addition of a third defendant to the Mar-a-Lago case is "nothing more than a continued desperate and flailing attempt by the Biden Crime Family and their Department of Justice to harass President Trump and those around him."
Cheung added, "Deranged Jack Smith knows that they have no case and is casting about for any way to salvage their illegal witch hunt and to get someone other than Donald Trump to run against Crooked Joe Biden."
Special counsel adds third defendant in classified docs case
The special counsel has added a third defendant in the classified documents case, Carlos De Oliveira, a maintenance worker from Mar-a-Lago, according to a filing today.
Trump was previously indicted and pleaded not guilty in June to charges stemming from his alleged mishandling of classified documents after he left the White House.
Barricades go up outside Fulton County courthouse ahead of possible indictments in Georgia election interference probe
Barricades were erected outside the Fulton County courthouse in Georgia yesterday in preparation for possible indictments in a probe that looked into whether Trump and his allies interfered in the state's 2020 presidential election.
District Attorney Fani Willis, a Democrat, informed law enforcement this year that the courthouse needed to be secured from July 31 to Aug. 18 for any possible indictments.
Trump campaign fundraises off of grand jury meeting
In a fundraising email this afternoon, the Trump campaign cited the ongoing grand jury meeting in soliciting donations.
Trump repeated his claims that the special counsel's investigation is a "witch hunt" by the "Deep State" and questioned the timing of today's grand jury meeting.
Trump has raised funds in the wake of previous indictments, including the week after his indictment on charges he mishandled classified documents and his indictment in a hush-money case.
Grand jurors seen leaving the courthouse
Grand jurors who are part of the panel investigating the 2020 election have been spotted leaving the courthouse.
Chris Christie says video of Mark Meadows not commenting looks ‘like somebody who is cooperating’ with Trump probe
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said yesterday that it seems like Donald Trump’s final White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows, might be cooperating with the federal probe into the former president.
Christie was reacting to a brief exchange captured on video yesterday morning in Washington between Meadows and an NBC News reporter, who asked Meadows whether he has testified before a federal grand jury.
“I don’t talk about anything J6-related,” Meadows said, referring to Smith’s probe into Trump’s role in the Jan. 6 riot and efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
Sen. Coons says Trump should be held accountable for encouraging the mob to attack the Capitol on Jan. 6
Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., said in an interview on MSNBC's "Andrea Mitchell Reports" today that Trump "should be held accountable" for "what he did or didn’t do to incite the mob and to encourage them to come and attack the Capitol and to seek to overturn the peaceful transfer of power following an election."
"That conduct is foundational to both our system of ordered liberty, our Constitution and our understanding of his willingness to respect those guardrails, those rules and those traditions," Coons said.
He added: "This was the closest we came to not succeeding, and I think President Trump, former President Trump, should be held accountable for that."
Grand jury hasn't been seen departing courthouse
The grand jury investigating the 2020 election appears to still be meeting. While some members were seen briefly leaving the jury room midday to get a snack, the panel didn't appear to take a lunch break as it often does on days that it is working.
Court official says no grand jury decisions today
A court official told reporters waiting at a federal courthouse in Washington, D.C., this afternoon that no indictments have been returned today and none are expected.
The grand jury investigating Trump and the 2020 election has been meeting in that courthouse today.