Trump update

 Federal prosecutors investigating Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results have evidence to charge the former president with three crimes, including section 241 of the US legal code that makes it unlawful to conspire to violate civil rights, two people familiar with the matter said... Prosecutors appear to have evidence to charge Trump with obstruction of an official proceeding and conspiracy to defraud the United States based on the target letter, two statutes that the House select committee examining the January 6 Capitol attack issued criminal referrals for last year. The target letter to Trump identified a previously unconsidered third charge, the sources said. That is section 241 of title 18 of the US code, which makes it unlawful to conspire to threaten or intimidate a person in the “free exercise” of any right or privilege under the “Constitution or laws of the United States”.

However Donald Trump fares in the Mar-a-Lago documents case in Florida, he will face a much tougher fight if the target letter he received on Sunday is followed by an indictment for attempting to overthrow the 2020 election. Those charges would almost certainly be brought in Washington, D.C., where juries have convicted one Jan. 6 defendant after another.
“If I was Donald J. Trump, the last place on Earth I’d want to be tried other than Atlanta, Georgia, is Washington, D.C.,” Samuel Shamansky, attorney for convicted Jan. 6 rioter Dustin Thompson, told The Daily Beast.

Donald Trump once again lets his voters know just what kind of president he strives to be, praising Dictator Xi Jinping as a "brilliant" and "perfect" leader who runs China "with an iron fist."....  "Think of President Xi: central casting, brilliant guy," Trump told his gullible fans at a Fox News town hall yesterday. "When I say he's brilliant, everyone says, 'Oh, that's terrible.' He runs 1.4 billion people with an iron fist: smart, brilliant, everything perfect. There is nobody in Hollywood like this guy." 

Trump’s attorney, Christina Bobb, set off alarms among Trump’s inner circle when she declared today that Special Counsel Jack Smith is “threatening” the 16 “fake Michigan electors”who were just charged with multiple felonies “into testifying as witnesses against President Trump” as a part of Smith’s investigation — or else they “will be thrown in jail.”  Legal experts quickly pointed out that she made a massive mistake, because Special Counsel Jack Smith has remained tight-lipped about his investigation — and Trump has claimed that he had nothing to do with the “fake electors.” Now, his very own lawyer just let the cat out of the bag by admitting that Trump orchestrated the entire thing because the “witnesses” are being “forced” to “testify against President Trump.”