A federal grand jury will convene in Florida this week to hear evidence in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into former President Donald Trump’s handling of classified documents, according to sources familiar with the investigation.
It’s unclear how the legal proceedings in Florida relate to the work of a separate grand jury in Washington, where prosecutors had been presenting evidence and testimony for months. The development was first reported by The Wall Street Journal.
It’s unclear why prosecutors have created multiple grand juries and whether they’re prepared to seek an indictment in either jurisdiction. The Justice Department declined to comment on the investigation.
Three members of Trump’s legal team met with Smith and other Justice Department officials on Monday, a person familiar with the matter said. Neither Attorney General Merrick Garland nor Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco attended, NBC News confirmed.
Writing on his social media platform, Truth Social, Trump lambasted the Justice Department on Monday, saying in all caps, “How can the DOJ possibly charge me, who did nothing wrong, so that no other president has been charged.”
Trump’s handling of classified documents came under FBI investigation last year when the National Archives alerted the agency that government documents Trump had returned after being out of office for about a year included 184 documents marked as classified.
Trump was indicted this spring on state charges in New York in a case involving silent money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels and a second wife in the final days of Trump’s presidential campaign. 2016. It was the first time a former president faced criminal charges.
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