Last night, I had a post relating that special counsel Jack Smith had used two grand juries in the Mar-a-Lago probe of former president Donald Trump’s allegedly illegal retention of national-security documents and effort to obstruct the government’s investigation. For the first several months of the investigation, witnesses and evidence were presented in Washington, D.C. But in recent weeks, witnesses and evidence have been presented to a grand jury sitting in Miami — federally speaking, the Southern District of Florida.
I concluded that the reason for the Miami grand jury was convenience — which, as I observed, is a sure sign that the case should be in Florida, not Washington. It now increasingly appears that Smith will bring the case, or at least much of it, in Miami. Presumably, the Justice Department realizes that Trump would have a very convincing motion to change venue if the case were indicted in Washington, and could even try to argue that the case so obviously should have been in Florida that the government acted in bad faith by conducting the grand-jury investigation in D.C.
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