Washington DC - President Donald Trump and his Department of Justice's efforts to target his political adversaries suffered another loss after a grand jury refused their demands to indict former aide Cassidy Hutchinson.
According to The New York Times, the grand jury on Tuesday declined a request from the DOJ's Civil Rights Division to indict Hutchinson over accusations that she lied while testifying before Congress in June 2022 about events surrounding the January 6 Capitol riots.
In her testimony, Hutchinson argued that Trump knew the danger he was creating on January 6, when thousands of his supporters stormed the Capitol at his command, and gave further details that implicated him and others in his inner circle.
Since taking office for his second term, Trump has sought to use the DOJ to target a number of his political adversaries, but nearly all of those efforts have also been unsuccessful.
His administration has repeatedly gone after New York Attorney General Letitia James, former FBI Director James Comey, and former special prosecutor Jack Smith, who led a January 6 case that nearly resulted in Trump being indicted.
Most recently, the DOJ has aggressively been targeting Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar of Minnesota with a probe that has led to her DC home being raided and members of her family being subpoenaed.