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Trump Is Charged in Classified Documents Inquiry
The indictment, filed Thursday in Federal District Court in Miami, is the first time in U.S. history a former president has faced federal charges.
Special counsel trades immunity for fake elector testimony as Jan 6 probe heats up
Special counsel Jack Smith has compelled at least two Republican fake electors to testify to a federal grand jury in Washington in recent weeks by giving them limited immunity, part of a current push by federal prosecutors to swiftly nail down evidence in the sprawling criminal investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election. The testimony comes after a year of relative dormancy around the fake electors portion of the investigation and as a parade of related witnesses are being told to appear before the grand jury with no chance for delay. filed charges against former President Donald Trump for his handling of classified documents.
Prosecutors initially obtained documents and interviews last spring from many of the Republicans who signed false certificates to the federal government, asserting they were the rightful electors for Trump in seven battleground states won by Joe Biden.
Locking in witness statements
An interest in former Trump legal team
push to use the Department of Justice to overturn the election. Giuliani played a key role in overseeing the fake electors plot across seven battleground states as part of the broader push to overturn the 2020 presidential election results for Trump.
Donald Trump posted $5.6 million to act as security while he appeals a civil verdict that he sexually abused writer E. Jean Carroll in a New York department store in the 1990s and later defamed her.
If Trump loses that appeal, Carroll would collect the $5 million a jury awarded her, according to a court stipulation by her attorneys and lawyers for the former president.
Trump faces a separate defamation lawsuit by Carroll that is set for trial in early 2023.
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