{"id":4295,"date":"2023-07-18T19:17:22","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T19:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=4295"},"modified":"2023-07-18T20:08:08","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T20:08:08","slug":"trump-says-doj-is-opening-criminal-probe-into-him-over-jan-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=4295","title":{"rendered":"Trump Says DOJ is Opening Criminal Probe Into Him Over Jan. 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/trump-says-doj-is-opening-criminal-probe-into-him-over-jan-6\/\">https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/trump-says-doj-is-opening-criminal-probe-into-him-over-jan-6\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/trump-raid.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Trump\u2019s Poll Numbers Spike After Indictment\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ronna McDaniel\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Former President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social Tuesday that Special Counsel Jack Smith informed him he is the target of a criminal probe related to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.<\/p>\n<p>This update, which has not yet been confirmed by the U.S. Department of Justice, is the latest in a series of legal challenges for the former president. Trump released a lengthy statement on his social media site of choice laying out what he says was told to him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDeranged Jack Smith, the prosecutor with Joe Biden\u2019s DOJ, sent a letter (again, it was Sunday night!) stating that I am a TARGET of the January 6th Grand Jury investigation, and giving me a very short 4 days to report to the grand Jury, which almost always means an Arrest and indictment,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>Smith has already filed nearly 40 charges against Trump related to his handling and retention of classified documents at his Florida residence.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s lawyers and federal prosecutors are currently wrangling over when the classified documents trial should take place, with Trump\u2019s team working to push the case past the 2024 election.<\/p>\n<p>The former president went on to call out what he calls a double standard of justice, pointing to the lack of indictment for President Joe Biden, who also admitted mishandling classified documents and also faces ongoing allegations about his role in a family \u201cbribery scheme.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNothing like this has ever happened in our Country before, or even close,\u201d Trump said. \u201cThey illegally spied on my Campaign, attacked me with a totally Fake \u2018Dossier\u2019 that was funded by Hillary Clinton\u2019s Campaign and the DNC, Impeached me twice (I won!), they failed on the Mueller Witch Hunt (No Collusion!), they failed on the Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax, the 51 \u2018Intelligence\u2019 Agents fraud, the FBI\/Twitter files, the DOJ\/Facebook censorship, and every other scam imaginable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Casey Harper<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/national\/article_65b1a7d0-257e-11ee-bca2-4b9baf2e9cee.html?a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Go to Source<\/a><br \/>\nReposted with permission<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/trump-says-doj-is-opening-criminal-probe-into-him-over-jan-6\/ \u00a0 Former President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":1370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wi-right-now"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4295"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4297,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4295\/revisions\/4297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}