Former President Donald Trump is on the brink of being charged with a crime in the last place he’d ever choose—his former home of Washington, D.C.
Trump is now all but certain to be criminally indicted by federal prosecutors over his attempts to reverse his 2020 election defeat, after receiving a so-called target letter from Special Counsel Jack Smith last week. That means an indictment is about to drop in a city that voted overwhelmingly for Trump’s Democratic opponents—including 92 percent for President Joe Biden in 2020, and 91 percent for Hillary Clinton in 2016.
What’s more, juries in the nation’s capital have been cranking out convictions of Jan. 6th defendants for months. After all, this is a town where plenty of potential jurors remember the assault on the Capitol as a particularly shocking moment, because it went down within a few miles of their homes. Over 700 people have been found guilty for their actions in the insurrection as of June 2023, although the majority of them entered guilty pleas and never went to trial.
“President Trump faces a jury pool that will be, at best, hostile, belligerent, and predisposed against him,” said Gene Rossi, a former federal prosecutor who represented a convicted Jan. 6 defendant, William Isaacs, in a trial earlier this year. “As a prosecutor, you could not ask for a better scenario.”
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