Just days after former President Donald Trump launched his third bid for the White House, the U.S. Department of Justice ramped up two investigations that may be the greatest impediments to his fight back to Pennsylvania Avenue.
Veteran prosecutor Jack Smith is heading both DOJ investigations as a special counsel, examining Trump’s role prior to the Jan. 6 riot and whether he retained sensitive documents at his home in Mar-a-Lago.
"If you're inciting a riot by saying go peacefully and patriotically to the Capitol, then, you know, we have turned the First Amendment upside down on its head," former acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker told Fox News Digital. "I don't see that part of the investigation being of much concern or consequence to President Trump."