Trump predicts new indictment ‘any day now’ to distract from Biden’s bad news

Donald Trump is bracing for an imminent fresh indictment and he claims the impending legal action will be a charade to obscure bad news for President Biden.

Trump bemoaned the supposed indictment in a post on Truth Social as Special Counsel Jack Smith mulls potential charges against him for the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and coinciding efforts to undermine the 2020 election.

“I assume that an Indictment from Deranged Jack Smith and his highly partisan gang of Thugs, pertaining to my ‘PEACEFULLY & TPATRIOTICALLY Speech [sic], will be coming out any day now, as yet another attempt to cover up all of the bad news about bribes, payoffs, and extortion, coming from the Biden ‘camp,’” Trump bemoaned in a Truth Social post.

Trump’s premonition coincides with closed-door testimony before the House Oversight Committee from Hunter Biden’s business partner Devon Archer who alleged the then-vice president was put on speakerphone for the first son’s business partners on roughly 20 occasions.

Trump, 77, delivered a controversial speech at the White House Ellipse on Jan. 6, 2021 shortly before rioters began ransacking the Capitol.

“I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard,” the then-president said at the time.

Critics, including members of the Jan. 6 Committee, have publicly admonished him over his remarks, alleging he riled up the crowd.

Smith has already lodged an indictment against Trump that got bumped up to 40 counts last week, for alleged hoarding of national security information. He pleaded not guilty.

A trial date for that case has been set for May 2024.

“This seems to be the way they do it. ELECTION INTERFERENCE! PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT!” Trump further fumed on Truth Social.

Federal prosecutors have brought a handful of individuals in Trump’s orbit before a federal grand jury over recent months, probing them over plans to challenge the 2020 election results.

Earlier this month, Trump confirmed that his attorneys received a target letter affording him the option to appear before that federal grand jury.

He turned it down. The move is widely seen as a sign that Smith is gearing up to potentially bring forward charges.

The former president has also been indicted on 34 counts by prosecutors from Manhattan over alleged hush money payments to individuals like porn star Stormy Daniels to capture and kill damaging stories about himself amid his 2016 campaign.

Trump pleaded not guilty in the Manhattan case.

In addition to a potentially looming second indictment from Smith, Trump is also staring down scrutiny from Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis.

Her office has been investigating whether crimes were committed to undermine the 2020 election in Georgia.

In January 2021, Trump infamously called Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and underscored the need to “find, uh, 11,780 votes” — enough needed to overturn his Peach State loss.

Trump’s legal team recently lost a bid to quash Willis’s inquiry.

“The work is accomplished. We’ve been working for 2.5 years. We’re ready to go,” Willis teased during a recent interview.

Trump has vehemently denied wrongdoing across the board in all of those cases and decried them each as a “witch hunt.”

He is the first former or sitting US president to be criminally indicted, though Ulysses S. Grant was the first president arrested for speeding in his horse and buggy.

Despite his mounting legal predicaments, the former president is the commanding frontrunner in the 2024 GOP primary.