The special prosecutor investigating Trump’s alleged involvement in the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021 and his attempts to falsify the result of the election he lost to Joe Biden has informed him that he is “a target of the investigation” . That expression means that the investigators have obtained evidence that links a person who was a “subject of interest” to one or more crimes. It’s more or less the equivalent of being declared “suspect.”
Being “objective of the investigation” is not synonymous with being charged. But it is, if it is likely to be. Last month, Trump received the letter just three days before being formally charged in a Miami court for withholding a series of secret documents from the White House.
As then, it was Trump himself who reported the receipt of the document from the special prosecutor’s office. Jack Smithwhich investigates the assault on the Capitol and Trump’s attempts to alter the election result.
Trump has already been indicted for two alleged crimes: campaign finance fraud in the payment of 130,000 dollars (123,000 euros) to the pornographic actress Stormy Daniels and for the retention of state secrets. The first case is from the State of NY, while the second is from the federal State, which means that the accusations are more serious. If charged for the assault on Congress and the elections, it would also be a case of the federal State.
The accusations have been decisive for Trump’s popularity in the 2024 elections to skyrocket, as he himself has stated. The former president is also being investigated in the state of Georgiaagain for attempts to falsify the 2020 electoral result.