Trump should announce run for 2024 soon to avoid indictment, source says

Source close to Donald Trump suggested the justice department would find it trickier to prosecute a presidential candidate

Donald Trump has to" announce a campaign for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024 in the next two weeks, according to a senior source close to Trump, if the former president wants to head off being indicted under the Espionage Act after the FBI search at Mar-a-Lago last week.

In communications reviewed by the Guardian, the source indicated Trump needed to announce because politically it would be harder for the US Department of Justice (DoJ) to indict a candidate for office than a former president out of the electoral running.