DOJ filing makes clear that it has “every intention to indict” Donald Trump
When the DOJ asked the judge for special permission to file a whopping forty page response to Donald Trump’s request for a special master, it was pretty clear that the DOJ was looking to publicly spell out just how guilty Trump is.
Now that the filing has surfaced, it’s even more clear where this is headed. Former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissman summed it up this way on Twitter: “You don’t make a filing this strong, bold, and factually accusatory if you don’t have every intention to indict.”
He’s correct, of course. The DOJ didn’t need to put forty pages out there publicly, just to get a judge to realize it’s too late for a special master to do anything; that could have been accomplished in five paragraphs. This filing was the DOJ’s big chance to educate the public on just how guilty Trump is, and the DOJ eagerly jumped all over that chance.
This filing clearly takes things past the point of no return, and if the DOJ weren’t already 100% certain that it’s going to criminally charge Trump over this, it wouldn’t have made this filing. The only question is when it’ll happen – and even that answer is far less important than the reality that the DOJ has indeed already decided to charge him.
