{"id":1984225,"date":"2023-07-27T14:41:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T18:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-says-attorneys-had-productive-meeting-with-doj-ahead-of-potential-indictment\/"},"modified":"2023-07-27T14:42:32","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T18:42:32","slug":"donald-trump-says-attorneys-had-productive-meeting-with-doj-ahead-of-potential-indictment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-says-attorneys-had-productive-meeting-with-doj-ahead-of-potential-indictment\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump claims positive meeting with DOJ before possible indictment."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdonald-trump-says-attorneys-had-productive-meeting-with-doj-ahead-of-potential-indictment%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1984225&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Former President Donald\u2064 Trump&#8217;s\u2064 Legal Team Meets with Special Counsel Amid Potential Indictment<\/h2>\n<p>Former President Donald Trump expressed confidence in his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/durham-takes-ex-clinton-lawyer-to-court-what-to-know\/\" title=\"Durham Takes Ex-Clinton Lawyer to Court: What To Know\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/9-key-points-from-trump-campaign-press-conference-on-challenges-to-election-results\/\" title=\"9 Key Points from Trump Campaign Press Conference on Challenges to Election Results\">legal team<\/a>&#8216;<\/a>s recent meeting with special counsel Jack Smith&#8217;s team, despite the looming possibility \u2063of an \u200cindictment. In a\u200b statement on his social media platform Truth Social, Trump emphasized that \u2064he believes he has done\u2062 nothing wrong\u2062 and that an indictment would only \u200dserve \u2063to further\u200b harm \u2064the country.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s\u2064 legal team is actively preparing for the\u2064 potential\u200b scenario of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-says-attorneys-had-productive-meeting-with-doj-ahead-of-potential-indictment\/\" title=\"Donald Trump claims positive meeting with DOJ before possible indictment.\">federal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-official-who-pulled-knife-on-trump-supporters-indicted-on-weapons-charges-media-tries-to-frame-him-as-victim\/\" title=\"Democrat Official Who Pulled Knife On Trump Supporters Indicted On Weapons Charges; Media Tries To Frame Him As Victim\">grand jury<\/a> voting<\/a>\u2064 on charges against the\u200b former president\u2064 as early as Thursday, according to sources familiar with the matter. \u2063This development comes after Trump revealed on\u2062 July 18\u200b that he had been notified of\u2064 being the\u200c target of an investigation \u2062into the January \u200d6, 2021, Capitol riot and alleged efforts to undermine the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/special-counsel-jack-smith-in-contact-with-republican-governor-will-he-roll-on-trump\/\" title=\"Special Counsel Jack Smith in touch with GOP Governor - Will he turn against Trump?\">target letter cited<\/a> three federal statutes related\u2062 to deprivation of rights, conspiracy \u2063to defraud\u2063 the country, and witness\u200b tampering. As part of Smith&#8217;s investigation into election subversion and attempts\u200d to impede the peaceful transfer of power, members\u2063 of the grand jury have been hearing testimony. Reporters observed members of the grand\u2063 jury entering the courthouse on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>It is worth noting that Smith has already indicted Trump in \u200dFlorida for alleged mishandling \u2062of classified documents \u200dafter leaving office in\u2064 2021.\u2062 Additionally, Trump faces an indictment \u2063in New York this year in connection with a case involving a\u200b payment of $130,000\u200b to \u200dporn star Stormy Daniels\u200d during the\u200b final days of \u2062the 2016 presidential\u200d campaign.\u200c Trump has pleaded not guilty in both cases.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Examiner reached out \u200bto \u2062multiple representatives of the former president for a response, but no comment \u2062has been provided \u200bat this time.<\/p>\n<p>Ashley Oliver contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>indictment is unwarranted,&#8221; said ex-President Trump. Despite being informed of a possible indictment, he expressed optimism after his legal team&#8217;s meeting with special counsel Jack Smith&#8217;s team. Trump maintained his innocence, citing advice from multiple lawyers and asserting that he had committed no wrongdoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1984226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1984225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1984225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1984226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1984225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1984225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1984225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}