Jack Smith
Smith continues to investigate efforts led by Donald Trump to overturn the 2020 presidential election result.
"This tells us that this is about more than Georgia," former prosecutor Elie Honig said after an ex-Arizona GOP official revealed he'd spoken with the FBI.
The former president spent Independence Day sharing memes and conspiracy theories.
Making threats against a federal law enforcement officer and family is itself a crime, although it is unclear whether Trump’s behavior reaches that threshold.
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Ty Cobb, who served in the Trump White House, said new recording "eviscerates" Trump's already-weak defense.
"People can be confident that we’ll obey the law, we’ll comply with the law," Pence told CBS' Robert Costa on “Face the Nation."
The former vice president's testimony could give special counsel Jack Smith some of the strongest evidence on Trump’s attempted coup.
In a phone call dated Jan. 2, 2021, the former president asked Brad Raffensperger to “find” the votes needed to give him a win in Georgia.
The request signals a focus on the former president's failed effort to stay in power through fake electors.