Trump target letter alleges conspiracy and witness tampering: report

United States Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith's target letter to former President Donald Trump on Sunday specifies the crimes that Trump is accused of having committed in his scheme to overturn the 2020 election, Rolling Stone's Jana Winter reported on Tuesday.

"The letter mentions three federal statutes: Conspiracy to commit offense or to defraud the United States; deprivation of rights under color of law; and tampering with a witness, victim, or an informant. It does not offer further details, nor does it detail how the special counsel believes Trump may have violated the statutes," a source familiar with the investigation told the magazine.

Trump, the individual noted, "is the only person named in the letter."

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Winter pointed out that "the statutes listed likely refer to the prosecutor's interest in charging Trump with obstructing the election certification process, including Trump's efforts to pressure Mike Pence to stop the certification of President Biden's 2020 victory."

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