Special counsel Jack Smith is criminally investigating Donald Trump for efforts to undo his loss in the 2020 election to President Joe Biden.
Courthouse at around 8:30 a.m. ET, NBC News reported as speculation grew that Trump would be indicted this week.
A number of those anonymous grand jurors were spotted in the cafeteria and then going to the grand jury room on the courthouse's third floor, according to NBC.for a meeting on Thursday morning. Neither CNBC nor NBC News immediately confirmed that. Smith is overseeing the Justice Department's criminal probe of Trump and his allies related to their attempts to prevent Presidentfrom being confirmed as the winner of the 2020 race by the Electoral College and Congress. That effort was based on false claims, spread broadly by Trump and his allies, that Biden only won as a result of widespread ballot fraud.
Trump last week revealed that Smith had told his lawyers on Sunday that the former president was a criminal target of that investigation and had been offered a four-day window to testify to the grand jury. The former president, who declined the offer, noted that such notifications are typically made before the recipient is indicted."We'll have fun on the stand with all of these people that say the Presidential Election wasn't Rigged and Stollen,"Peter Carr, a spokesman for Smith, declined to comment to CNBC on Thursday.
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