{"id":1988068,"date":"2023-08-01T17:51:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T21:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-indicted-jack-smith-jan-6-grand-jury-votes-for-new-indictment\/"},"modified":"2023-08-01T17:53:19","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T21:53:19","slug":"donald-trump-indicted-jack-smith-jan-6-grand-jury-votes-for-new-indictment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-indicted-jack-smith-jan-6-grand-jury-votes-for-new-indictment\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump indicted: New indictment voted by Jan. 6 grand jury, Jack Smith."},"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\">26<\/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-indicted-jack-smith-jan-6-grand-jury-votes-for-new-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=1988068&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>Federal Grand Jury Indicts Former President Donald Trump<\/h2>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/missouri-man-charged-with-threatening-to-murder-2-us-congressmen\/\" title=\"Missouri Man Charged With Threatening to Murder 2 US Congressmen\">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><\/a> in Washington,\u200d D.C.,\u200d has indicted former President Donald Trump on Tuesday\u200d over matters relating to the Jan.\u2064 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol and alleged\u200b efforts to\u2062 overturn the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, as he has in \u2062the past two indictment cases, announced on Truth Social before the formal indictment had been \u200cdelivered that he was\u200d expecting charges.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I hear that Deranged Jack Smith, in \u2062order to interfere\u2063 with the Presidential Election of 2024, will be putting out yet \u2062another Fake Indictment of your\u2063 favorite President, me, at 5:00 p.m.,&#8221; he wrote minutes before the news broke.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The former president and 2024 \u200dGOP front-runner added, &#8220;Why didn&#8217;t they do this 2.5 years ago? Why\u200b did they wait \u200bso long? Because they wanted to\u2064 put it right in the middle of my campaign. Prosecutorial Misconduct!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump also announced on July 18 he \u200chad \u200dreceived a letter two days before notifying\u2063 him that he was a target of an investigation by a grand jury examining the Jan. 6 attack and efforts to overturn the 2020\u2064 election, which he narrowly lost to President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<h3>Bidenomics: Why\u2063 Biden Gets Poor Ratings on the Economy Despite Improving Numbers<\/h3>\n<p>The target letter reportedly named three <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 statutes related<\/a> to the deprivation of\u200d rights, conspiracy to defraud the United States, and witness tampering. However, it remains unclear what charges prosecutors will specifically level against the former president.<\/p>\n<p>The indictment was\u2064 received by the duty magistrate judge and placed under seal. On Tuesday, Judge Moxila Upadhyaya was scheduled as the duty\u200d magistrate,\u2063 though a different \u200djudge\u200b will oversee the eventual trial.<\/p>\n<p>The grand jury has been convening for months\u2062 in the District of Columbia in the investigation led \u200dby special counsel Jack Smith.<\/p>\n<p>As speculation swirled\u200d about whether\u2063 the grand jury would move to indict the former president when it convened on \u2062Thursday, July\u2063 27, two of Trump&#8217;s attorneys met \u200dwith \u2064prosecutors in\u2063 the District that day. Hours later, Smith&#8217;s team surprised Trump with\u2062 a superseding indictment, bringing three new charges to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-indicted-jack-smith-jan-6-grand-jury-votes-for-new-indictment\/\" title=\"Donald Trump indicted: New indictment voted by Jan. 6 grand jury, Jack Smith.\">ongoing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/police-eugene-mclaurin-facing-federal-charges-in-chicago-shooting\/\" title=\"Police: Eugene McLaurin facing federal charges in Chicago shooting\">case surrounding<\/a> alleged mishandling<\/a> of \u200dclassified record at his Florida \u2062resort home, Mar-a-Lago. Prosecutors \u200dincluded a\u200c new charge\u200c of \u2063willful retention of documents and two new \u2062obstruction charges, alleging Trump worked with two co-defendants to attempt to delete Mar-a-Lago&#8217;s surveillance footage.<\/p>\n<p>Smith received more\u2063 documents the week of July 24 as part of his investigation, including records from a lawyer representing former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik, who said he sent thousands of pages of documents to Smith&#8217;s office over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The grand jury also recently heard testimony recently from William Russell, \u2064a former White House aide who \u2064now works for Trump&#8217;s 2024 presidential campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the\u200d Tuesday indictment, Trump and\u200d his advisers spent the start of the week in preparation, lining up surrogates and allies to \u200dimmediately\u200d respond to the new charges \u200bonce they become filed, sources \u2063familiar with the plans told CNN.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2064 has now\u200b been indicted in three different cases.\u200c His first federal indictment came in June in the case related to his handling of classified documents. He was indicted on New York state charges in April in a case surrounding \u2064a $130,000 payment to porn star Stormy Daniels during the final days of\u200b the 2016 presidential \u2063campaign. On July 27, he faced a superseding indictment from a \u200dFlorida grand jury adding additional charges in Smith&#8217;s original classified\u200b documents case. He has pleaded not guilty during two separate arraignments over the federal\u2062 and state charges.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">Click here to read more from The Washington Examiner<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After receiving the target\u200c letter, Trump blasted Smith on his Truth Social platform, calling him \u200ca &#8220;deranged&#8221; prosecutor and saying such letters &#8220;almost always means an Arrest and indictment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story and will be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., indicted ex-President Donald Trump on Tuesday for his involvement in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot and alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 election. Trump, as before, revealed the news on Truth Social prior to the official indictment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1988069,"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-1988068","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\/1988068","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=1988068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1988069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1988068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1988068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1988068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}