Jack Smith Now Expected To ‘Pull the Trigger’ and Charge Trump With January 6 Offenses, Attorney General Barr Says

General Barr defends the Mar-a-Lago documents indictment and predicts that the special counsel will also indict Trump for crimes related to the attack on the Capitol on January 6.

AP/J. Scott Applewhite, file
Attorney General Barr on Capitol Hill, April 9, 2019. AP/J. Scott Applewhite, file

While Special Counsel Jack Smith’s 37-count indictment relating to the trove of classified documents stored at Mar-a-Lago presents its own distinct legal peril to President Trump, it also appears to have brought into focus the stakes of another criminal investigation, this one with respect to the attack on the Capitol on January 6. 

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