Trump’s postelection fundraising comes under scrutiny by DOJSeattle Times, Sep 8, 2022, NY Times
A federal grand jury in Washington is examining the formation of — and spending by — a fundraising operation created by Donald Trump after his loss in the 2020 election as he was soliciting millions of dollars by baselessly asserting that the results had been marred by widespread voting fraud.
According to subpoenas issued by the grand jury, the contents of which were described to The New York Times, the Justice Department is interested in the inner workings of Save America PAC, Trump’s main fundraising vehicle after the election. Several similar subpoenas were sent Wednesday to junior and midlevel aides who worked in the White House and for Trump’s presidential campaign.
The fact that federal prosecutors are now seeking information about the fundraising operation is a significant new turn in an already sprawling criminal investigation into the roles that Trump and some of his allies played in trying to overturn the election, an array of efforts that culminated with the mob attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
The expanded Jan. 6 inquiry is playing out even as Trump is also under federal investigation on an entirely different front: his decision to hold onto hundreds of government documents marked as classified when he left office and his failure to comply with efforts by the National Archives and the Justice Department to compel their return.
On Thursday, the Justice Department asked a federal judge to revisit her decision to temporarily stop prosecutors from gaining access to the classified documents for use in that investigation.
The new subpoenas related to Trump’s fundraising vehicle did not make clear what possible crime or crimes the Justice Department might be investigating. The House select committee investigating the attack on the Capitol and what led to it has also been examining Trump’s fundraising operation and has raised questions about whether it had duped donors through misleading appeals about election fraud.
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