The special counsel is reportedly weighing charges relating to raking in millions of dollars via false election claims — and they weren’t claims made by Biden promising a return to normalcy.
The report that the special counsel, Jack Smith, is contemplating handing up charges of wire fraud against President Trump suggests that the Manhattan district attorney is not the only prosecutor pursuing exotic charges against the former president.
Instead, creative charging appears to be the name of the game against the man who could be the highest-profile defendant America has ever seen, as the law’s long arm stretches to reach the country’s 45th president.
As District Attorney Alvin Bragg works on transforming misdemeanors into felonies and the Fulton County district attorney, Fani Willis, considers using anti-racketeering law meant for mobsters against Mr. Trump — having already deployed it against teachers and rappers — Mr. Smith, who once tried war crimes, is getting in on the action.
Mr. Smith, who has been tasked by Attorney General Garland with investigating both the trove of documents at Mar-a-Lago and Mr. Trump’s possible culpability for the events of January 6, 2021, is according to the Washington Post investigating whether Mr. Trump used “false claims about voter fraud to raise money.”
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