Rolling Stone confirmed on Wednesday, however, that Trump had been notified he was the target of an ongoing criminal probe, the latest in a string of signals that charges were imminent. Trump’s legal team met with Smith earlier in the week in a last-ditch effort to avoid charges. “Wow, this is turning out to be the greatest & most vicious instance of ELECTION INTERFERENCE in the history of our Country,” he wrote Wednesday in a typical post. The former president’s rantings on Truth Social became increasingly paranoid this week ahead of the indictment on Thursday.
Trump has been complaining incessantly about the investigations, alleging they are part of a vast conspiracy to prevent him from retaking the White House. He’s also under investigation in Georgia for meddling with the state’s election results. Special Counsel Jack Smith, who brought the classified document charges, is still investigating Trump’s role in the effort to overturn the 2020 election. He’s now the first to be indicted on federal charges, too, and more could be coming. Trump became the first former president to be indicted in April when Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg charged him with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to a hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election. Donald Trump reacts after he says he was indicted in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case /3FbnNK5Az6- The Recount June 9, 2023 Seven years of proving it, and here we go again.” However, by the evening, the Trumpland rumor mill was vindicated this time. And some members of Trump’s inner circle spent the day trying to figure out if the chatter of a Thursday indictment were even based in reality, or a rerun of the time earlier this year when Trump announced he’d be arrested on the wrong date. The requisite campaign fundraising appeals were discussed quietly. Media surrogates and other higher-profile defenders of Trump were instructed to be on standby, in the event the former president was in fact indicted by the feds Thursday. Two people with knowledge of the matter told Rolling Stone that Trump’s lawyers and close allies were on high alert Thursday morning, roughly 12 hours before it was publicly announced that Trump had been indicted in the documents probe. Trump wrote that he will appear in court next week: “I have been summoned to appear at the Federal Courthouse in Miami on Tuesday, at 3 PM.
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