DOJ indictment watch begins after FBI raids Donald Trump’s home
Ask any legal expert, and they’ll tell you that once a DOJ criminal investigation reaches a point where the FBI is carrying out a search and seizure warrant at the target’s home, it’s highly likely that the target will end up being indicted. Part of this is because, just to obtain such a warrant, the DOJ has to show a judge that it basically already has the target nailed.
Now that the FBI has obtained and carried out such a warrant at Donald Trump’s home, it strongly points to him ending up criminally indicted. At this point the big question is, when? That’s an open question. For one thing, we don’t know how the DOJ amassed enough evidence to obtain this warrant. All of the reporting we’ve seen about grand jury testimony appears to be related to an entirely different DOJ probe, into Trump’s fake elector plot. No details have emerged about the DOJ’s classified documents probe into Trump, beyond the reporting a few months ago that it had reached the grand jury stage.
The DOJ reportedly took a large number of boxes out of Mar-a-Lago during the raid. It’ll take time to sort them. Given that some of the documents relate to national security and almost no one has clearance to even acknowledge their existence, sorting them could be an even more complex process. But if the DOJ has already built this criminal case against Trump, and taking back the documents was the final piece, then we could be looking at a Trump indictment this year, as opposed to next year.
We know that this DOJ isn’t going to arrest Trump a few days before the midterm election, or anything like that. You can expect criminal charges against him to either come safely before election day in November, or safely after it.
There is also the question of whether the DOJ will criminally charge Trump in the classified documents scandal as soon as that criminal case is complete, or if it’ll wait until the criminal charges against Trump are ready to go in the fake elector scandal as well. In other words, will we see the DOJ indict Trump sooner and then keep piling on superseding indictments, or will the DOJ wait until later and indict Trump on the full boat of charges at once?
In any case, now that we know the DOJ is this deep into its criminal case against Donald Trump, we are, remarkably, officially on indictment watch. It could happen six days from now or six months from now. No one outside the DOJ knows for sure. The DOJ itself may not even have decided on the timeframe yet, as its cases continue to progress. But we’re now, finally, on Trump indictment watch.
