The U.S. Department of Justice and Special Counsel Jack Smith will ask a federal grand jury to indict failed former president Donald Trump on charged of obstructing justice and violating the Espionage Act.
The Independent reports that Smith will request those indictments as soon as Thursday.
The Independent has learned that prosecutors are ready to ask grand jurors to approve an indictment against Mr Trump for violating a portion of the US criminal code known as Section 793, which prohibits “gathering, transmitting or losing” any “information respecting the national defence”.
The use of Section 793, which does not make reference to classified information, is understood to be a strategic decision by prosecutors that has been made to short-circuit Mr Trump’s ability to claim that he used his authority as president to declassify documents he removed from the White House and kept at his Palm Beach, Florida property long after his term expired on 20 January 2021.
Under the Espionage Act 1917, the maximum penalty is 10 years in prison for each count. Obstruction carries a prison sentence of up to 20 years.
Another grand jury is meeting in Florida to hear evidence in the case of the classified documents Trump allegedly had in violation of federal law. Reportedly, he was found to be in possession of 103 documents bearing classification markings. 8 were marked “top secret,” 54 “secret,” and 31 marked as “confidential.”
The Washington Post is reporting that Trump could also be charged with perjury and making false statements when it comes to the documents in question.
Additionally, we learned Tuesday that former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows has testified before Smith’s grand jury on the matter of the documents and also the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol., which could result in Trump being charged with seditious conspiracy.
As you’d expect, Trump has been melting down on his pathetic social media site, Truth Social, claiming that he has not been told he will be indicted.
No one has told me I’m being indicted, and I shouldn’t be because I’ve done NOTHING wrong, but I have assumed for years that I am a Target of the WEAPONIZED DOJ & FBI, starting with the Russia, Russia, Russia HOAX, the “No Collusion” Mueller Report, Impeachment HOAX #1, Impeachment HOAX #2, the PERFECT Ukraine phone call, and various other SCAMS & WITCH HUNTS. A TRAVESTY OF JUSTICE & ELECTION INTERFERENCE AT A LEVEL NEVER SEEN BEFORE. REPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS MUST MAKE THIS THEIR # 1 ISSUE!!!
Translation: He’s being indicted, and he’s scared shitless.
