All posts tagged "Target Letter"

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, now a presidential candidate against Donald Trump for 2024, explained to CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer on Wednesday that, back in his days as a prosecutor, a target letter of the sort special counsel Jack Smith sent to the former president essentially always signaled an indictment was imminent.

"You're a former federal prosecutor and former U.S. Attorney," said Blitzer. "Give us your thoughts on the likelihood the special counsel could actually secure a conviction of Trump."

"It's hard to say, Wolf," said Christie, one of the few GOP candidates consistently criticizing Trump on the trail. "We haven't seen the indictment yet, and I tried to be very careful about this both on the classified documents case and also now this one ... my sense is that it will be a speaking indictment, as we call it in the business, which will provide detail about the evidence that backs up the charges, and it's speculation until we see what the grand jury returns, if they return something."...

United States Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith's target letter to former President Donald Trump on Sunday specifies the crimes that Trump is accused of having committed in his scheme to overturn the 2020 election, Rolling Stone's Jana Winter reported on Tuesday.

"The letter mentions three federal statutes: Conspiracy to commit offense or to defraud the United States; deprivation of rights under color of law; and tampering with a witness, victim, or an informant. It does not offer further details, nor does it detail how the special counsel believes Trump may have violated the statutes," a source familiar with the investigation told the magazine.

Trump, the individual noted, "is the only person named in the letter."...