In the criminal investigation led by Special Counsel Jack Smith into meddling attempts after the last presidential election, the federal grand jury that approved an indictment of former President Donald Trump has returned for additional work, though exactly what would be on the agenda wasn’t immediately clear.
The revelation came from CNN. “The grand jury that handed up an indictment against former president Trump is back at the DC federal courthouse today after a four-week break, indicating the investigation into election interference is ongoing,” the network’s Casey Gannon said. “CNN spotted the jurors this morning.” In short, more criminal charges for other defendants could, in theory, be in the pipeline.
CNN also recently reported on recent moves by Smith’s team to investigate financing around the efforts after the last presidential election in support of Trump’s attempts to stay in power despite losing to Joe Biden, with a particular focus in some of their recent questions for witnesses on Sidney Powell and her nonprofit organization Defending the Republic. Powell has been tied in a Georgia indictment to a scheme to copy data from the local elections system in that state’s Coffee County, an effort that, like similar ploys in other states, was imagined would boost attempts inside Trump’s circles to find evidence for the widespread fraud Trump was claiming and continues to claim. No such evidence has ever emerged to substantiate Trump’s claims of election-deciding fraud.
Powell and at least one co-defendant from the case, Kenneth Chesebro, are set to face trial together in Georgia next month after an unsuccessful push to separate the handling of the charges against those two. Chesebro’s looming link at trial to Powell, highlighted as it will be considering most of the other defendants won’t be on trial yet, is partly of his own doing, since he pushed for a speedy trial on Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’s claims. Powell did the same, and now the two attorneys are linked.
NEWS: The grand jury that handed up an indictment against former president Trump is back at the DC federal courthouse today after a four-week break, indicating the investigation into election interference is ongoing.
CNN spotted the jurors this morning.
— Casey Gannon (@caseyagannon) September 7, 2023
