DeSantis attacks DoJ’s Trump letter during rare CNN interview – as it happened
Florida governor and Trump's top rival for Republican presidential nomination holds first non-Fox News interview
It is unclear what specific charges Donald Trump could face in the Justice Department's 6 January investigation. But it had been clear that the former president's actions would be a central focus of the DOJ's investigation.
Attorney general Merrick Garland appointed a special counsel to review the matter last year to determine whether any person or entity unlawfully interfered with the transfer of power".
Investigators have also examined Trump's consideration of a plan to seize voting machines from the states, his campaign of false claims that the election was stolen and his role in advancing a plan to assemble bogus slates of presidential electors to stoke a conflict ahead of 6 January.
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