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He wrote:</p>”,”elementId”:”0c8d7b34-0a54-4625-9742-c909d23b221f”},{“_type”:”model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.BlockquoteBlockElement”,”html”:”<blockquote class=\”quoted\”>\n <p>Deranged Jack Smith, the prosecutor with Joe Biden’s DOJ, sent a letter … stating that I am a TARGET of the January 6th Grand Jury investigation, and giving me a very short 4 days to report to the Grand Jury, which almost always means an Arrest and an Indictment.</p>\n</blockquote>”,”elementId”:”97e2746f-289a-42ac-92d9-5de6d2c6b634″},{“_type”:”model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement”,”html”:”<p>People who receive target letters from federal authorities are usually advised by their attorneys to not take up invitations to meet with the grand jury because any statements provided in that setting could be used to help build a case against them in the event that they’re charged.</p>”,”elementId”:”f7c6f631-96b4-482e-a51f-34b357abcd94″}],”attributes”:{“pinned”:false,”keyEvent”:true,”summary”:false},”blockCreatedOn”:1689858156000,”blockCreatedOnDisplay”:”14.02 BST”,”blockLastUpdated”:1689859019000,”blockLastUpdatedDisplay”:”14.16 BST”,”blockFirstPublished”:1689859019000,”blockFirstPublishedDisplay”:”14.16 BST”,”blockFirstPublishedDisplayNoTimezone”:”14.16″,”title”:”Deadline looms for Trump to appear before January 6 grand jury”,”contributors”:[],”primaryDateLine”:”Thu 20 Jul 2023 16.37 BST”,”secondaryDateLine”:”First published on Thu 20 Jul 2023 13.57 BST”},{“id”:”64b924628f08ff360bcb12e4″,”elements”:[{“_type”:”model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement”,”html”:”<p><strong>Good morning, <a href=\”https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-politics\”>US politics</a> blog readers. </strong>The<strong> </strong>former president, <strong>Donald Trump,</strong> has quietly added a criminal defense attorney to his legal team as he faces a potential indictment in the justice department’s investigation into the January 6 insurrection.</p>”,”elementId”:”f871fecf-bbf9-408d-a181-bd3be08d1a8e”},{“_type”:”model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement”,”html”:”<p>Attorney <strong>John Lauro,</strong> who has also represented Trump attorneys Christina Bobb and Alina Habba, is joining Trump’s legal team alongside Todd Blanche, according to sources, CNN <a href=\”https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/19/politics/john-lauro-attorney-trump-january-6/index.html\”>reported</a> late on Wednesday.</p>”,”elementId”:”42644b42-cc2b-4c95-a64f-e8e4262c0634″},{“_type”:”model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement”,”html”:”<p>Lauro will be solely focused on special counsel <strong>Jack Smith</strong>’s investigation into Trump’s efforts to remain in office following his 2020 election defeat to <a href=\”https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/joebiden\” data-component=\”auto-linked-tag\”>Joe Biden</a>, including the deadly 6 January 2021 riot in which his supporters overran the Capitol building in Washington DC.</p>”,”elementId”:”07710ac5-99c6-4a9b-a798-319bd5fc1332″},{“_type”:”model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement”,”html”:”<p>Federal prosecutors have evidence to charge the former president with three crimes, including section 241 of the US legal code that makes it unlawful to conspire to violate civil rights, the Guardian <a href=\”https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/19/trump-investigation-three-federal-crimes-january-6\”>reported last night,</a> citing two people familiar with the matter.</p>”,”elementId”:”d69cc4a6-d97e-4193-91ef-a45bd08a4f31″},{“_type”:”model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement”,”html”:”<p>Trump faces being charged with obstruction of an official proceeding and conspiracy to defraud the United States, two statutes that the House select committee examining the January 6 Capitol attack issued criminal referrals for last year.</p>”,”elementId”:”1cd69208-8282-4c20-b2f3-ae35c7bf4a2e”},{“_type”:”model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement”,”html”:”<p>The target letter also identified a previously unconsidered third charge, the sources said. That is <a href=\”https://www.justice.gov/crt/statutes-enforced-criminal-section#:~:text=18%20U.S.C.%20%C2%A7%20241&amp;text=Section%20241%20makes%20it%20unlawful,having%20exercised%20such%20a%20right.\”>section 241 of title 18 of the US code</a>, which makes it unlawful to conspire to threaten or intimidate a person in the “free exercise” of any right or privilege under the “Constitution or laws of the United States”.</p>”,”elementId”:”a718974d-d05e-4a69-94ed-b83481cb5f5c”},{“_type”:”model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement”,”html”:”<p>The potential charges detailed in a target letter sent to Trump by prosecutors from Smith’s office, who also charged Trump with retaining classified documents last month, was the clearest signal of an imminent indictment.</p>”,”elementId”:”25a980df-9d2c-4454-99b4-2bd8c03d1ae6″},{“_type”:”model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement”,”html”:”<p>Here’s what else we’re watching today:</p>”,”elementId”:”a6765c50-a0c3-42ca-9bb6-43695ab28979″},{“_type”:”model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement”,”html”:”<ul>\n <li><p><em>9am ET: </em><strong>Joe Biden</strong> will get his daily intelligence briefing.</p></li>\n <li><p><em>9am ET: </em>The <strong>House</strong> will hold a hearing on online censorship. Democratic presidential hopeful, <strong>Robert F Kennedy,</strong> is expected to testify.</p></li>\n <li><p><em>10am ET</em><em>: </em>The <strong>Senate</strong> will meet to resume consideration of an EPA nomination and the NDAA.</p></li>\n <li><p><em>10.20am ET: </em><strong>Biden</strong> will leave for Joint Base Andrews, where he will fly to Philadelphia.</p></li>\n <li><p><em>10.45am ET: </em>House Minority Leader <strong>Hakeem Jeffries</strong> will hold his weekly news conference.</p></li>\n <li><p><em>1pm ET: </em><strong>Biden</strong> will speak about “Bidenomics”. He will depart Philadelphia to return to the White House in the afternoon.</p></li>\n</ul>”,”elementId”:”9523971e-c0a2-437e-bf7b-bd0786a14cc2″}],”attributes”:{“pinned”:false,”keyEvent”:true,”summary”:false},”blockCreatedOn”:1689857845000,”blockCreatedOnDisplay”:”13.57 BST”,”blockLastUpdated”:1689859365000,”blockLastUpdatedDisplay”:”14.22 BST”,”blockFirstPublished”:1689857845000,”blockFirstPublishedDisplay”:”13.57 BST”,”blockFirstPublishedDisplayNoTimezone”:”13.57″,”title”:”Trump quietly adds new lawyer as he faces potential indictment in January 6 case”,”contributors”:[],”primaryDateLine”:”Thu 20 Jul 2023 16.37 BST”,”secondaryDateLine”:”First published on Thu 20 Jul 2023 13.57 BST”}],”filterKeyEvents”:false,”format”:{“display”:0,”theme”:0,”design”:11},”id”:”key-events-carousel-mobile”}”>

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Kevin McCarthy denies report he privately promised Trump to expunge impeachments

House speaker Kevin McCarthy has denied he privately promised former president Donald Trump that he would get legislation passed that would erase Trump’s two impeachments.

According to a Politico report, Trump was outraged at McCarthy for withholding his endorsement of his presidential run in the 2024 election. In an interview last month, McCarthy expressed doubt that Trump was the “strongest” candidate to defeat Joe Biden and win back the White House next year.

“He needs to endorse me – today!” Trump is said to have fumed to his staff on his way to a campaign event in New Hampshire. McCarthy called Trump to apologize after the interview, claiming he misspoke, sources told CNN at the time.

In return for delaying that endorsement, according to Politico, McCarthy pledged that he would get the House to vote to expunge both impeachments against the former president. The outlet said McCarthy had promised to do so before Congress leaves for an August recess. Recess begins in less than two weeks.

In 2019, a Democrat-controlled House voted to impeach Trump for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress after he asked Ukraine to investigate his presidential election rival, Joe Biden, and his son on unsubstantiated corruption accusations.

The House impeached Trump for a second time in 2021 for his actions ahead of the deadly January 6 attack on the US Capitol by his supporters. The Senate acquitted him both times, thanks to the votes of Republicans. McCarthy voted against impeaching Trump both times.

“There’s no deal,” McCarthy told a reporter in the Capitol on Thursday, Reuters reported.

Trump’s legal problems: where does each case stand?

Joan E Greve

Twice impeached and now twice arrested and indicted. Donald Trump faces serious charges in New York and Florida over a hush-money scheme during the 2016 election and his alleged mishandling of classified documents.

And more criminal charges could be on the way for Trump in Georgia and Washington DC. Here is where each case against Trump stands:

Classified documents case in Florida

Status: Trump pleaded not guilty; trial scheduled for August

Charges: 31 counts of willful retention of national defense information under the Espionage Act, conspiracy to obstruct justice and false statements and representations, among others

Hush-money case in New York

Status: Trump pleaded not guilty; trial forthcoming

Charges: 34 felony charges of falsifying business records

January 6 case in Washington

Status: Subpoenas issued by grand jury

Potential charges against Trump: Obstruction of an official proceeding, conspiracy to defraud the government and incitement of an insurrection

2020 election meddling case in Georgia

Status: Grand jury report finished; charging decisions expected this summer

Potential charges against Trump: Election code violations

E Jean Carroll lawsuits in New York

Status: First lawsuit going to trial; second lawsuit on appeal

Allegations against Trump: Defamation and sexual abuse

Read the full story here.

Recent witnesses who have appeared before the grand jury investigating Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election were reportedly asked about the former president’s state of mind surrounding the January 6 insurrection.

Federal prosecutors asked multiple former senior Trump White House officials to speak to Trump’s mindset in the days and weeks after losing the 2020 election, leading up to 6 January, according to a New York Times report.

Witnesses including Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, were asked if he had privately acknowledged that he had lost the election, it said. Kushner is understood to have said that it was his impression that Trump truly believed the election was stolen.

The line of questioning suggested prosecutors were trying to determine if Trump acted with corrupt intent as he sought to remain in power, the paper said.

Hugo Lowell

What the potential charges means for Trump is unclear.

Prosecutors have been examining various instances of Trump pressuring officials like his former vice-president Mike Pence, but Trump’s efforts to obstruct the transfer of power could also be construed as conspiring to defraud voters more generally.

The other two statutes, meanwhile, suggest a core part of the case against Trump is focused on the so-called fake electors scheme and the former president’s efforts to use the fake slates in a conspiracy to stop the congressional certification of Joe Biden’s election win on 6 January 2021.

The target letter did not cite any seditious conspiracy, incitement of insurrection or deprivation of rights under color of law – other areas for which legal experts have suggested Trump could have legal risk.

Last year, the House select committee that investigated the Capitol attack concluded that Trump committed multiple crimes in an attempt to reverse his 2020 defeat to Joe Biden, including conspiracy to defraud the United States and obstruction of an official proceeding.

The committee issued symbolic criminal referrals to the justice department, although at that point the justice department had since stepped up its criminal investigation with the addition of new prosecutors in spring 2022 before they were folded into the special counsel’s office.

House investigators also concluded that there was evidence for prosecutors to charge Trump with conspiracy to defraud and obstruction of an official proceeding. They also issued referrals for incitement of insurrection, which was not listed in the target letter.

Should prosecutors charge Trump in the federal January 6 investigation, the case could go to trial much more quickly than the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case – before the 2024 election – because pre-trial proceedings would not be delayed by rules governing national security materials.

Trump under investigation for civil rights conspiracy in January 6 inquiry

Hugo Lowell

Federal prosecutors investigating Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results have evidence to charge the former president with three crimes, including section 241 of the US legal code that makes it unlawful to conspire to violate civil rights, two people familiar with the matter said.

The potential charges detailed in a target letter sent to Trump by prosecutors from the office of special counsel Jack Smith, who also charged Trump with retaining classified documents last month, was the clearest signal of an imminent indictment.

Prosecutors appear to have evidence to charge Trump with obstruction of an official proceeding and conspiracy to defraud the United States based on the target letter, two statutes that the House select committee examining the January 6 Capitol attack issued criminal referrals for last year.

The target letter to Trump identified a previously unconsidered third charge, the sources said. That is section 241 of title 18 of the US code, which makes it unlawful to conspire to threaten or intimidate a person in the “free exercise” of any right or privilege under the “Constitution or laws of the United States”.

The statute, enacted to protect the civil rights of Black voters targeted by white supremacy groups after the US civil war, is unusual because it is typically used by prosecutors in law enforcement misconduct and hate crime prosecutions, though its use has expanded in recent years.