If a federal indictment of former President Donald Trump was imminent during the afternoon of June 7, he denied being informed about it.
Throughout the day, numerous news reports were circulating that the Department of Justice (DOJ) had alerted Trump or his lawyers that he would be formally charged in connection with the classified documents found at his Florida residence during an FBI raid last August.
In response, Trump posted on his Truth Social network: “No one has told me I’m being indicted, and I shouldn’t be because I’ve done nothing wrong.”
Already facing charges under New York business records laws, Trump faces multiple other state and federal probes, all of which the Republican former president has denounced as persecutions led by his political enemies, mainly Democrats and “RINOS,” short for “Republicans In Name Only.”
Trump, in his Truth Social denial of knowledge about a pending Washington indictment, says that he has assumed for years he has been “a target of the weaponized DOJ & FBI.” He says the agencies are committing “a travesty of justice and election interference at a level never seen before.”
Trump is urging Republicans in Congress to make this their top concern.
Biden, Trump Both Face Probes
The flurry of reports about a looming federal indictment of Trump comes as House Republicans are accusing the FBI of withholding key information about a purported $5 million foreign bribe of Democrat President Joe Biden during his years as vice president. He served in that role under President Barack Obama from 2009-2017.
Trump and his allies allege that Democrats and bureaucrats have long shielded Biden, a career politician, from meaningful scrutiny. Trump, a political outsider prior to his presidential run in 2015, says he has been targeted because entrenched Washington forces fear he will expose them and dismantle their insider network.
Talk of Trump’s possible indictment ramped up after Trump’s lawyers were spotted leaving a two-hour June 5 meeting inside the DOJ. His lawyers had sought a meeting with the DOJ to discuss “the ongoing injustice” that they claim Trump is facing under Special Counsel Jack Smith’s probes.
By Janice Hisle
