I received a letter to investigate me in the events of the attack on the Congress headquarters
Former US President Donald Trump said on social media that he had received an official message informing him that he was the target of a criminal investigation as part of his efforts to overturn the 2020 elections, according to the American network “CNN”.
Trump noted: “Jack Smith, the attorney general in Joe Biden’s Department of Justice, sent a letter (again, it was Sunday night!) saying I was a target in the grand jury investigation of the events of January 6, and gave me 4 days to appear before the panel.” Which often means arrest or conviction.
Trump also received a letter from Smith earlier this year, prior to his indictment in an investigation into the mishandling of classified documents he had taken with him from the White House.
On Thursday, US Special Investigator Jack Smith urged the federal judge investigating Donald Trump’s retention of classified documents to reject the former US president’s request to postpone his criminal trial until after the 2024 presidential election.
Trump’s defense had submitted a request to the court to postpone the trial in the case known as the “Maralago Documents” and to cancel its scheduled date.
A request submitted by the former US president’s lawyers showed that Donald Trump and his assistant, Walt Nauta, asked a Florida federal court to postpone the criminal trial in the case related to keeping confidential documents after leaving office.
Prosecutors had already asked Judge Elaine Cannon to postpone hearing the case to December 11, from the initial scheduled date of August 14, to give both the prosecution and defense more time to prepare.
However, Trump’s lawyers said in a motion filed on Monday that the December deadline did not give them reasonable time to prepare, and described the government’s requested timeline as “unrealistic.”
The lawyers added, “The court must therefore withdraw the current order setting the time for the trial and postpone any consideration for a new date for the trial.”
Trump, the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, pleaded not guilty on June 13 in federal court in Miami to charges of illegally keeping classified national security documents when he left office in 2021 and lying to officials who sought to recover them.
Trump’s lawyers said in the request that a trial in December was not possible given the demands of Trump’s campaign, the large amount of evidence they would likely need to review, and the other cases he faces.
The documents case will be conducted according to a strict set of rules set out in the Confidential Information Procedures Act, which aims to protect classified evidence and regulate its disclosure.
Nauta also pleaded not guilty last week in federal court in Miami to charges of helping Trump hide top secret documents taken when he left the White House.
