DOJ indictment: Donald Trump reacts to Rumors flying that he is about to be charged under the Espionage Act and for obstruction of justice tomorrow, Thursday July 8, 2023

DOJ indictment: Donald Trump reacts to Rumors flying that he is about to be charged under the Espionage Act and for obstruction of justice tomorrow, Thursday July 8, 2023.

This Wednesday, leading Republican presidential contender and 45th President Donald Trump responded to rumors that the Justice Department plans to indict him next week on charges surounding the Mar-a-Lago document probe.

Lawyers for Donald Trump met with top US justice department officials on Monday to complain about perceived misconduct in the criminal investigation into the former US president’s handling of national security materials and obstruction, according to two people familiar with the matter.

The meeting involved Trump lawyers Jim Trusty, John Rowley and Lindsay Halligan speaking with the special counsel Jack Smith, who is leading the investigation, and a senior career official to the deputy attorney general, one person said. CBS News first reported the meeting.

Trump’s lawyers made a general case as to why Trump should not be charged in the Mar-a-Lago documents case and suggested that some prosecutors working under special counsel Jack Smith engaged in what they considered prosecutorial misconduct, the people said.

The exact allegations are not clear but Trump’s lawyers for weeks have complained privately that Jay Bratt, the chief of the counterintelligence and espionage section at the justice department, once sought to induce a witness into confirming something they declined to, one of the people said.

Complaints of that nature result in an internal note to the special counsel and are unlikely to delay the criminal investigation.

Trump responded to these rumors on Truth, saying, “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!!!”