Trump angry over legal troubles at Truth Social

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Former President Trump opened up about his ongoing and potentially upcoming legal issues on Truth Social on Sunday, leveling accusations of politicking against the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the prosecutors investigating him.

The DOJ appears to be close to potentially filing charges against the former president for his role in Jan. 6, 2021, unrest at the Capitol and a broader effort to subvert the results of the 2020 presidential election. Trump announced last week that he had received a letter informing him that he was the target of an investigation and had four days to decide whether to appear before a grand jury to make his case.

Trump and his allies have criticized the DOJ and special counsel Jack Smith for what they see as political motivations fueling the investigations and charges brought against him, and the former president reiterated those attacks on Sunday.

“Every time you see these Radical Lunatics and their Fake News Media partners talking about the ‘Trials and Tribulations’ of President Donald J. Trump, please remember that this is all a coordinated HOAX… to STEAL ANOTHER ELECTION through PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT on levels never seen in the US” he posted.

“[Attorney General] Merrick Garland, Deranged Jack Smith, and coordinating Democrat ‘Prosecutors’ in New York and Atlanta, have become Campaign Managers for the most corrupt and incompetent President in the history of the United States, Joe Biden!” he said in another post.

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Trump has already been charged in Manhattan with falsifying business records over hush payments to porn actress Stormy Daniels, and in federal court in Florida with various counts related to his alleged mishandling of classified and sensitive documents, including possible violations of the Espionage Act.

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Smith, who is overseeing both the documents investigations and the 2020 election efforts, emphasized the “gravity” of the charges Trump faces after he announced the decision in the documents case last month. He also defended the DOJ and FBI’s handling of the cases, indirectly addressing the criticism they have both received from Trump and his allies.

Trump also criticized the amount of money spent on investigations of him in general and from the Smith investigations in particular. A DOJ report revealed earlier this month that Smith spent $5.4 million in the first five months of his investigation, while other DOJ agencies that assisted in the investigation spent an additional $3.8 million.

The report showed that Robert Hur, the special counsel appointed to investigate President Biden’s handling of classified documents, spent $615,000 on the investigation, and agencies assisting him spent $570,000.

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