{"id":1984310,"date":"2023-07-27T16:02:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T20:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-indictment-watch-on-hold-as-jack-smith-grand-jury-returns-no-charges-thursday\/"},"modified":"2023-07-27T16:03:19","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T20:03:19","slug":"trump-indictment-watch-on-hold-as-jack-smith-grand-jury-returns-no-charges-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-indictment-watch-on-hold-as-jack-smith-grand-jury-returns-no-charges-thursday\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump indictment watch paused as Jack Smith grand jury concludes without charges on Thursday."},"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\">28<\/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%2Ftrump-indictment-watch-on-hold-as-jack-smith-grand-jury-returns-no-charges-thursday%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=1984310&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\u2062 Trump Avoids Indictment, Investigation Continues<\/h2>\n<p>Exciting news from the federal courthouse in Washington, D.C.! Former \u2063President Donald Trump\u200d has narrowly \u200descaped indictment, at least\u200b for today. According to reports,\u2063 an official at the courthouse has confirmed\u200c that no indictments have been returned and none \u2064are expected for the remainder of the \u2062day.<\/p>\n<p>However, this doesn&#8217;t mean \u2063that Trump \u2062is completely in the clear. On July 18, he took to his \u200dnew \u2063<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-new-acting-attorney-general-jeff-rosen-recently-wrote-an-essay-on-foreign-influence-in-us-elections-this-tells-us-a-little-about-his-knowledge-of-whats-going-on-today\/\" title=\"The New Acting Attorney General Jeff Rosen Recently Wrote an Essay on Foreign Influence in US Elections \u2013 This Tells Us A Little About His Knowledge of What\u2019s Going On Today\">social media platform<\/a>, Truth\u2064 Social, to reveal that he is the target of an \u200dinvestigation into the infamous\u2064 January 6, 2021,\u2063 riot\u2063 at the \u2064U.S. Capitol and alleged attempts\u2063 to undermine the 2020\u2062 election.<\/p>\n<h3>Grand Jury Deliberations and\u2064 Special Counsel Investigation<\/h3>\n<p>Today, a \u2062federal \u200cgrand jury\u2064 convened at the courthouse, fueling speculation\u200c that charges might \u200bbe imminent for \u200bthe former president. \u200dThis grand jury is part of special \u200ccounsel \u2064Jack Smith&#8217;s investigation, which aims to uncover any efforts to subvert the 2020 election and impede the peaceful transfer of power during the Capitol riot.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, however, remains defiant. In\u2062 a post on Truth Social just after 1 p.m. EDT, he claimed\u200b that his attorneys had a\u2063 &#8220;productive meeting&#8221; with\u200b Justice Department prosecutors\u200b earlier in the day. He downplayed the reports of an impending\u2062 indictment, \u2063stating that no indication of such notice was given during the meeting. Trump also emphasized\u200d that he\u2063 believes\u200d he did nothing wrong, with his attorneys providing a detailed explanation to support his innocence.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s spokesman, Steven \u2062Cheung, dismissed NBC News&#8217;s report that the\u200b former president&#8217;s\u200c lawyers were informed about the expected \u2062indictment,\u200d labeling it as\u200d &#8220;incorrect.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Past Indictments and Ongoing Legal Battles<\/h3>\n<p>It&#8217;s worth noting that\u2064 this isn&#8217;t the first \u2064time Trump has faced legal \u2062troubles. Special counsel Jack Smith\u2064 has already indicted him in Florida \u2062for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-indictment-watch-on-hold-as-jack-smith-grand-jury-returns-no-charges-thursday\/\" title=\"Trump indictment watch paused as Jack Smith grand jury concludes without charges on Thursday.\">allegedly\u2064 mishandling classified documents<\/a> after leaving\u200c the Oval Office in \u20622021. Additionally, Trump was \u200dindicted in New York earlier\u2064 this year in\u200c a \u200bcase related to a $130,000 payment made to porn\u2062 star Stormy \u200bDaniels during the final days of the 2016\u2063 presidential campaign. Trump has pleaded not guilty in both cases.<\/p>\n<p>As the \u2064investigation continues, the Washington Examiner reached \u200bout to the clerk&#8217;s office for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-announces-new-legal-team-for-impeachment-defense-after-previous-team-collapsed\/\" title=\"Trump Announces New Legal Team For Impeachment Defense After Previous Team Collapsed\">federal district court<\/a> for further information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump will not face indictment today, as confirmed by a federal courthouse official in Washington, D.C. No indictments have been returned, and none are anticipated for the remainder of the day. Trump shared this update on Truth Social on July 18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1984311,"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-1984310","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\/1984310","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=1984310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1984311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1984310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1984310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1984310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}