Coming Attractions: A Trump charging decision

Created
Mon, 09/01/2023 - 01:00
Updated
Mon, 09/01/2023 - 01:00
News overlooked on Friday This news was largely obscured Friday by the Republicans’ Speaker follies: The special counsel investigating Donald Trump could decide whether to file criminal charges against him in just weeks after amassing a trove of new state documents concerning pressure to overturn the 2020 election, sources have told Bloomberg. Special Counsel Jack Smith and his team of Justice Department prosecutors are currently poring over new emails, letters and other records from battleground states. “You can tell that it’s moving quickly,” Brian Kidd, a former federal prosecutor who served under Smith at the Department of Justice, told Bloomberg. Officials in Arizona, Georgia, New Mexico and Nevada confirmed to Bloomberg that they have complied with grand jury subpoenas from Smith’s office. The material turned over by Nevada and reviewed by Bloomberg reveals that Trump representatives baselessly accused the state’s local officials of allowing election “fraud and abuse” soon after Trump lost the vote to Joe Biden. “Moving quickly” is good. A decision “in just weeks” is better. First charges are likely to involve federal documents seized by the FBI last summer at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago compound, former federal prosecutor Cynthia Alksne told MSNBC’s “The Katie Phang Show” on Saturday (Newsweek): “Well, I would guess that one is going to come pretty soon. I mean, let’s face it—that’s an easy prosecution,” she said. “You stole the documents. We’re asking for them. We ask you ‘pretty please.’ You said ‘no.’ You lied about it. You move them, and then we found them.” Alksne said the case could likely be prosecuted “at any…