Six unnamed co-conspirators of Donald Trump are likely to be indicted by Department of Justice (DOJ) special counsel Jack Smith, according to former federal prosecutor and legal analyst Glenn Kirschner on Saturday.
Trump is currently contending with four criminal indictments at the state and federal levels, totaling 91 criminal charges in all. Among these cases is the federal one brought by the DOJ and Smith pertaining to Trump's alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, which ultimately led to the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot. Trump, the frontrunner in the 2024 GOP presidential primary, has maintained his innocence in the case and accused all of the cases against him of being attempts to undermine his political prospects.
The federal indictment for election interference also notably mentions six other alleged co-conspirators in Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election. In a video posted to YouTube on Saturday, Kirschner, a former assistant U.S. attorney turned outspoken critic of the former president, told MSNBC contributor Brian Tyler Cohen on The Legal Breakdown that further indictments will "absolutely" be passed down onto these unnamed co-conspirators.
"We know that in the Trump indictment...there are six unindicted co-conspirators," Kirschner said. "Now, they are listed, they are described, but they're not named, but we basically know who they are...They do include people like Mark Meadows, and Rudy Giuliani, and Sidney Powell, and John Eastman, and Kenneth Chesebro."
He continued: "You have heard me say before, I am not a betting man, I am not a high roller, one dollar is my betting limit. I would bet the full buck on those six unindicted co-conspirators being indicted...[Smith] will absolutely, in my opinion, indict those six, though perhaps waiting for Donald Trump's trial to run its course first."
Newsweek reached out to other legal experts via email for comment.
The several Trump allies listed by Kirschner as the likely unindicted co-conspirators were all notably among the 18 co-defendants charged in the former president's election interference indictment in Fulton County, Georgia, which similarly stems from his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Among those names, Powell and Chesebro have already accepted plea deals in exchange for future testimony, and might be liable to do the same in the federal case.
Elsewhere in his Saturday appearance on Cohen's YouTube channel, Kirschner addressed the possibility of Trump continuing to campaign for president even if he is convicted of criminal charges, which the former president has pledged to do and which the U.S. Constitution does not prohibit in most cases. Kirschner referred to this as a "weak spot" in the founding document.
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