(LANKAPUVATH | COLOMBO) – Donald Trump has said he expects to be arrested by a federal inquiry into the US Capitol riot and efforts to challenge the 2020 election results.
The ex-president said in a social media post he had been informed by special counsel Jack Smith on Sunday night that he was a target of their investigation.
Mr Trump posted he had been told to report to a grand jury, “which almost always means an Arrest and Indictment”.
The special counsel has not commented on Mr Trump’s statements.
Such an indictment would be Mr Trump’s third for alleged criminal offences, including 37 counts brought by Mr Smith’s team in June accusing the president of mishandling classified documents.
Mr Trump has also been charged in New York City with falsifying business records in 2016 hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels.
He is due to stand trial in that case next March, while a date for the classified documents case is still being contested by the president’s lawyers.
Speaking in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Tuesday night, the former president expressed his frustration at the latest development.
“I didn’t know practically what a subpoena was and grand juries and all of this. Now I’m becoming an expert, I have no choice because we have to,” he said at the campaign event. “It’s a disgrace.”
