January 6 probe Looking at Donald Trump post-election fundraising: Another new report says the special prosecutor looking into January 6 is concentrating on fundraising claims made by Trump’s operation that claimed the election was stolen.
Among the ongoing investigations into former President Donald Trump is the special counsel’s probe into the former president’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election and January 6.
One thread that prosecutors are reportedly focused on is that Trump and his campaign and other operations made false claims about the election in fundraising appeals - something that may very well have been a crime.
The Washington Post reported in mid-April that prosecutors in the office of Special Counsel Jack Smith “sought a wide range of documents related to fundraising after the 2020 election, looking to determine if former president Donald Trump or his advisers scammed donors by using false claims about voter fraud to raise money.”
Now, the New York Times has published a follow-up, noting that prosecutors are “drilling down on whether Mr. Trump and a range of political aides knew that he had lost the race but still raised money off claims that they were fighting widespread fraud in the vote results, according to three people familiar with the matter.”
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