Special Counsel Jack Smith arrives to talk to the press on the US Department of Justice in Washington, DC, on June 9, 2023, announcing the unsealing of the indictment against former US President Donald Trump.Â
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The federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., that last week indicted former President Donald Trump is meeting again Tuesday, a powerful sign that special counsel Jack Smith’s criminal investigation into Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results soon could add more defendants.
NBC News reported that multiple members of the grand jury were seen across the E. Barrett Prettyman Courthouse in Washington.
The identical panel on Aug. 1 charged Trump with 4 felony counts related to his try to reverse President Joe Biden’s victory over him.
The indictment details the role that six alleged co-conspirators, most of them lawyers, played in that scheme.
Those six people weren’t identified by name. But there was speculation because the indictment that some or all of them could soon be criminally charged.
Smith last week had pointedly said, “Our investigation of other individuals continues.”
An attorney for the Trump ally lawyer John Eastman last week confirmed that Eastman was likely the second co-conspirator described within the indictment.
Eastman’s attorneys last week asked a judge in California to postpone ongoing disbarment proceedings against Eastman as a result of the chance he can be indicted for a similar conduct that’s the subject of that motion.
California’s State Bar counsel is in search of to yank Eastman’s law license within the state due to his role in promoting a technique to disclaim Biden his electoral victory by getting then-Vice President Mike Pence to refuse to certify the legitimacy of various states’ ends in 2020.
“Specific charges allege that Eastman made false and misleading statements regarding purported election fraud, including statements on January 6, 2021, at a rally in Washington, D.C., that contributed to frightening a crowd to assault and breach the Capitol to intimidate then-Vice President Pence and forestall the electoral count from proceeding,” the State Bar said in January.
On Monday, the disgraced former Recent York City Police Department commissioner Bernie Kerik met for hours with investigators from Smith’s office in Washington.
Kerik’s lawyer said the interview centered on the role that Trump campaign lawyer Rudy Giuliani played within the try to overturn the 2020 election results. Kerik worked with Giuliani on that effort.
Trump, 77, has pleaded not guilty within the indictment.
He currently is the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.
