Former President Donald Trump said that he has received a letter informing him that he is a target of the Justice Department's investigation into efforts to undo the results of the 2020 presidential election.
; Trump got one ahead of being charged last month in a separate investigation into the mishandling of classified documents.
Those efforts ultimately culminated in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, when a mob of his supporters marched to the U.S. Capitol and stormed the building in an effort to disrupt the counting and certification of Electoral College votes. More than 1,000 people in nearly all 50 states have been arrested in connection with the riot.
Trump has consistently denied wrongdoing and did so again in his Tuesday post, writing, “Under the United States Constitution, I have the right to protest an Election that I am fully convinced was Rigged and Stolen. just as the Democrats have done against me in 2016, and many others have done over the ages.”
Prosecutors have cast a broad net in their investigation into attempts by Trump and his allies to block the transfer of power to Joe Biden. Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, a prominent Trump critic in the 2024 race, urged the former president to drop out of the race in the wake of Tuesday's news.
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