Special Counsel Jack Smith Likely Not Done With Indictments

There’s still the matter of Trump’s attempt to retain power despite his 2020 election loss

Gippolito Ndp
5 min readJun 12, 2023
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In a prior article published on April 18th I suggested that Special Counsel Jack Smith would equivocally recommend (to Merrick Garland) that Trump not be indicted regarding Jan 6th.

I’ve had to rethink that particular idea.

In that same article in mid-April, I predicted that federal charges against Trump would be coming soon in the “other” case, likely before anticipated state charges in Georgia — and Trump’s indictment on 37 felony counts was just unsealed last week, specific to what’s become known as “the Mar-a-Lago documents case.”

That indictment came out of a grand jury in Miami, Florida — the activity of which only recently became known.

But Jack Smith’s mandate also included investigating “whether any person or entity acted unlawfully in attempting to prevent the transfer of power following the 2020 election” … culminating in the attack on the Capitol on Jan 6th. That’s in the wheelhouse of the grand jury in D.C.

Subsequent events have caused me to alter the prediction in my April 18th article regarding that matter. Chief among those reasons is the very recent…

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Gippolito Ndp

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