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The counsel for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg emailed House Republicans Friday, telling them to back down from their investigation into Bragg’s office The counsel for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on Friday urged House Republicans to denounce former President Donald Trump's attacks on Bragg's office, saying they are collaborating with him to undermine his criminal probe. "You and many of your colleagues have chosen to collaborate with Mr. Trump's efforts to vilify and denigrate the integrity of elected state prosecutors and trial judges," the attorney for Bragg said in letter to Reps. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio., Bryan Steil, R-Wis., and James Comer, R-Ky. The three are chairmen of House committees probing the DA's investigation into Trump. The emailed letter came mere hours after the Manhattan's DA office indicted Trump in a criminal proceeding involving his payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels. Following the news, the former pre...

"He's a raging and uncontrolled Trump-hater," he's said. It was a history-making moment Tuesday when special counsel Jack Smith and former president Donald Trump appeared together for the first time in the same Miami courtroom. Then, hours later, after Trump pleaded not guilty to federal charges, he got on stage in front of supporters at his Bedminster, New Jersey, Golf club, and blasted the man who oversaw his indictment as a "deranged lunatic." "He's a raging and uncontrolled Trump-hater, as is his wife," Trump said. As part of his strategy to discredit the investigation, Trump has repeatedly gone after Smith and his wife, who produced a 2020 documentary about Michelle Obama, as well as documentaries about other high-profile figures. Trump's repeated attacks on Smith and his family follow a familiar pattern of his lashing out at those leading probes into his conduct. His i NFL ammatory comments about Manhattan District Attorney Alvin...

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is expected to sit for an interview on Wednesday with investigators in special counsel Jack Smith’s office. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is expected to sit for an interview on Wednesday with investigators in special counsel Jack Smith’s office, the secretary’s spokesperson confirmed to ABC News. Raffensperger, the top election official in Georgia, was the recipient of former President Donald Trump's infamous phone call in January 2021, during which the then-president asked Raffensperger to "find" the exact number of votes he needed to win the state. Trump has repeatedly defended the call, calling it "perfect." Smith, who is overseeing the Justice Department’s investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election, issued subpoenas to election officials in Georgia and states across the country in late 2022 for communications with or involving Trump, his 2020 campaign aides, and a list of Trump all...

Biden has been voluntarily interviewed by the special counsel investigating his handling of classified documents while out of office, the White House said Monday night President Joe Biden has been interviewed by the independent prosecutor's team investigating his handling of classified documents while out of office, the White House said Monday night. "The voluntary interview was conducted at the White House over two days, Sunday and Monday, and concluded Monday," White House spokesman Ian Sams said in a statement. "As we have said from the beginning, the President and the White House are cooperating with this investigation, and as it has been appropriate, we have provided relevant updates publicly, being as transparent as we can consistent with protecting and preserving the integrity of the investigation," Sams said, referring further questions to the Department of Justice. Special counsel Robert Hur oversaw and participated in the interview of President Biden...

Special counsel raises more concerns over Trump's attacks on witnesses, suggests he may have violated law against purchasing firearm. Special Counsel Jack Smith’s office filed a reply Friday evening to former President Trump’s opposition to the prosecution's proposed gag order in Trump's federal election interference case. Smith's office raises new concerns about Trump's recent public statements attacking prosecutors and other potential witnesses and also suggests he may have violated a law prohibiting people under felony indictment from purchasing firearms. Special counsel Jack Smith speaks to the media about an indictment of former President Donald Trump, Aug. 1, 2023, at an office of the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. J. Scott Applewhite/AP, FILE "Since [the] date [the government proposed the gag order], the defendant has continued to make statements that pose a substantial likelihood of material prejudice to this case and that fall within the...

A timeline into the special counsel's probe into former President Donald Trump's handling of classified documents Special counsel Jack Smith has filed additional charges against former President Donald Trump and his aide Walt Nauta and added a new defendant to Smith’s case over Trump's handling of classified documents after leaving office in early 2021. The superseding indictment adds a new count charging Trump with willful retention of national defense information. Carlos De Oliveira, a Trump Organization worker who sources tell ABC News is the head of maintenance at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, was added to the obstruction conspiracy charges. Prosecutors allege he conspired to delete security footage from Mar-a-Lago as federal officials were investigating the retention of the classified documents . Here is how the latest charges came about. June 22, 2022 After observing security footage near the storage room in which classified information was found, the Justice...

He made his first comments since the former president was indicted. Attorney General Merrick Garland on Wednesday made his first public remarks after the historic indictment of former President Donald Trump on federal criminal charges. Garland, taking questions at an event on combating violent crime, said he couldn't discuss particulars of the case but offered general praise for special counsel Jack Smith and his team after being asked about accusations made by Trump and other Republicans that the Justice Department has been "weaponized." "As I said when I appointed Mr. Smith, I did so because it underscores the Justice Department's commitment to both independence and accountability," the attorney general said. "Mr. Smith is a veteran career prosecutor. He has assembled a group of experienced and talented prosecutors and agents who share his commitment to integrity. Any questions about this matter will have to be answered by their filings in court....

Ken Block, the founder of Simpatico Software Systems, said he was subpoenaed to turn over documents related to his work with the Trump campaign. A firm contracted by Donald Trump's presidential campaign in November 2020 to investigate claims of voter fraud has been subpoenaed by the special counsel investigating those claims, the founder of the firm told ABC News. Ken Block, the founder of Simpatico Software Systems, said he was subpoenaed to turn over documents related to his work with the Trump campaign. The firm was the second one hired by the campaign that found no widespread evidence of voter fraud . Businessman Ken Block responds to a question while participating in a primary debate while running as a Republican candidate for governor, Sept. 3, 2014, in Providence, R.I. Steven Senne/AP, FILE The subpoena came from special counsel Jack Smith. Smith is investigating not only the potential crimes resulting from the Jan 6 insurrection at the Capitol, but also claims by the Tru...

The Department of Justice was right to appoint a special counsel to investigate Biden's handling of classified documents, Sen. Raphael Warnock said on Sunday The Department of Justice was right to appoint a special counsel to investigate President Joe Biden's handling of classified documents , Georgia Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock said on Sunday. "Classified documents are to be taken seriously and they are to be handled with a great deal of care and no one is above the law," Warnock told ABC "This Week" co-anchor Jonathan Karl. "So I'm glad to see the Justice Department doing its work, and we ought to let that work proceed." Warnock said he was also "glad to see that the president and his administration are cooperating. We need to get to the bottom of this so we don't see this kind of thing happening again." The White House has said that multiple sets of documents with classified markings, including those from his time ...

The Biden and Trump special counsels over classified documents put a spotlight on Merrick Garland and the DOJ, former federal prosecutors say Experts say the discovery of classified documents at President Joe Biden's Wilmington, Delaware, home and at an old Washington office of his at the Penn Biden Center has put Attorney General Merrick Garland in the middle of two "unprecedented" special counsel investigations. The parallel probes of both Biden and Donald Trump are an extraordinary circumstance, legal experts and former prosecutors told ABC News, and will inevitably require Garland and the Department of Justice to walk a tightrope to avoid any appearance of politicization while investigating if crimes were broken by the current or former president. "We're really in uncharted waters here," said Neama Rahmani, a former federal prosecutor in California who now leads the firm West Coast Trial Lawyers. Garland announced on Thursday that he was naming former...