campaigning for president even if he were convicted. now, that is not entirely shocking to be honest. trump never admitted defeat after losing the election in the 2020 election. he s not going to tap out of the 2024 race when it s just getting started. but there s more to this move. it s not about politics. it has a bigger strategy at its core. as axios explains, the 2024 campaign is more than a race to return to the white house. this is a fight to stay out of prison. legal experts believe it s unlikely trump s criminal trial will be resolved before the 2024 election, so whoever wins the presidency could be in a position to influence trump s case, and if trump is the gop nominee, he could essentially be campaigning for his freedom, an unprecedented scenario in this country. according to axios, winning the presidency would give a chance for sympathy or even pardon himself if convicted. his political rivals trying to beat trump, they have signaled they would pardon him or bring
the subpoena, what if we told them we don t have anything here. at the end of may walt nauta was interviewed by prosecutors and repeatedly lies about the removal of boxes at mar-a-lago. they then visit mar-a-lago and find 38 declassified documents from trump s lawyer. two months later on august 5th, the gist it is department applies for a warrant to search mar-a-lago citing a probable cause that additional records of classified documents were still being stored there. a judge approves the application the same day. and three days later, the fbi searches mar-a-lago and seizes 102 classified documents, and then we fast forward to november 15th, 2022. donald trump announces that he s running for president again, and three days late e november 18th, attorney general merrick garland announces the appointment of special counsel jack smith. in if beginning of january of this year and continuing for the
next few months, several trump aides and allies are called to appear before the grand jury in washington. and then on june 5th trump and his lawyers go to meet with senior officials including jack smith to discuss the status of the case. three days later, june 8th, grand jury in miami indicts donald trump and walt nauta. on june 9th, the indictment is made public and it shows that trump is now charged with 37 felony counts and nauta is charged with six. and that brings us to today, the moment in which we find ourselves. and on tuesday, june 13th, trump is scheduled to make an initial court appearance at 3:00 p.m. at the federal courthouse in miami, florida. that is how we got to donald trump being indicted twice in three months. where we go from here, only time will tell. we ll be right back. only time will tell. we ll be right back.