Breaking: Donald Trump charged by Justice Department over his Jan. 6 role in third criminal indictment
“The lawlessness of these persecutions of President Trump and his supporters is reminiscent of Nazi Germany in the 1930s, the former Soviet Union, and other authoritarian, dictatorial regimes,” the Trump campaign said in a statement on Tuesday. “President Trump has always followed the law and the Constitution, with advice from highly accomplished attorneys.”
At the heart of Trump’s response to the charges has been to gin up a sense of collective grievance among the MAGA faithful. “They’re not coming after me, they’re coming after you,” he often tells his supporters at rallies. He has also claimed, without evidence, that the prosecutions are a politically-motivated witch-hunt designed to kneecap the man blocking President JoeYet out of all the indictments thus far, Smith’s latest may be the one Trump’s critics have been pining for the most.
The referral came as the Justice Department had been pursuing its own investigation into Jan. 6, which by then was under the purview of Smith, who Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed as special counsel after Trump announced his presidential bid in November.
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