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The Republican front-runner said there was "no way" he could get a fair trial under Judge Tanya S. Chutkin.
The former vice president has been increasingly emphatic in his criticism of Trump, and his campaign suggested it's paying off.
“Despite having lost, the Defendant was determined to remain in power,” prosecutors allege.
The federal indictment is Trump’s second in two months after he was charged with mishandling classified documents.
A federal grand jury has indicted the former president on four felony charges related to the insurrection, his second federal indictment in recent months.
Trump was already impeached for his incitement of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol designed to keep him in power despite losing the 2020 election.
The top 2024 Republican presidential candidates are loath to criticise Donald Trump over anything, even an attempted overthrow of democracy.
Special counsel Jack Smith's team is reportedly looking to hear from former New York City police commissioner Bernie Kerik and an ex-Trump lawyer.
“I think they are ready to go,” said Ty Cobb, who served in the Trump White House.
Taylor Taranto, who'd been identified as one of the mob that attacked the US Capitol over the 2020 election results, was arrested near the Obamas' DC home.