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Politics
Heather Digby Parton

Trump's target letter: A reckoning nears

All day Monday, former president Donald Trump's Truth Social feed was active with posts ragging on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and re-posts of his fandom's superhero memes. You would never have known that the night before he had been presented with a target letter from Special Counsel Jack Smith. On Tuesday, Trump fessed up and posted a rambling, incoherent official two-page "statement" announcing it to the world.

"Deranged Jack Smith, the prosecutor with Joe Biden's DOJ, sent a letter … stating that I am a TARGET of the January 6th Grand Jury investigation, and giving me a very short 4 days to report to the Grand Jury, which almost always means an Arrest and an Indictment" the statement began after which it immediately devolved into whining and crying over his alleged persecution at the hands of well... everyone. He lamented, "it is a very sad and dark period for our nation."

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