U.S. federal prosecutors are likely to wait until after the November midterm elections to announce any charges against former U.S. President Donald Trump, if they determine he broke laws, according to people familiar.
The unprecedented prospect of bringing charges against a former president is creating intense scrutiny of the U.S. Department of Justice in the aftermath of its search of his home at Mar-a-Lago. A separate DOJ probe is focused on his effort to overturn the 2020 election, which he lost to U.S. President Joe Biden.
Secret documents sprawled over Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home revealed for the first time the highly sensitive nature of national security papers the former president was keeping.