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The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) unequivocally condemns and opposes the recent indictment of four members of the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP), alongside three Russian nationals. The unsealed indictment states that on Tuesday, April 18, 2023, a federal grand jury in Tampa, Florida, levied charges of “conspiring to covertly sow discord in U.S. society, spread Russian propaganda and interfere illegally in U.S. elections.” While no evidence of conspiracy, propagandizing, or interference has been presented, the APSP and its members have the right, as all U.S. citizens do, to freely criticize U.S. domestic and foreign policy.

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A Georgia grand jury concluded that one or more witnesses in a probe into possible election meddling by former President Donald Trump may have lied under oath, and recommended a prosecutor pursue criminal indictments in those cases. The special grand jury also found no significant fraud in Georgia’s 2020 presidential election won by President Joe Biden, according to portions of the final report on its monthslong investigation unsealed Thursday.

But the panel’s conclusions on whether Trump, his lawyers and political allies committed crimes while pressuring state officials to overturn the election in his favor by making false claims of election fraud were not released Thursday.

Among other actions, the grand jury that was impaneled in May was known to be eyeing a Jan. 2, 2021, phone call by Trump, in which he urged Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” 11,780 votes for him. That number of votes would have given Trump enough to win the state and its 16 Electoral College votes. Raffensperger refused to comply with Trump’s request.

The sealed sections of the report are expected to become public at some future date. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis will determine whether to charge Trump or anyone else in the case.

In the unsealed sections, the grand jury said it received evidence involving more than 75 witnesses, most of which was delivered in person and under oath. The report noted that the panel’s extensive witness list included poll workers, investigators, technical experts and state officials, as well as “persons still claiming that such fraud took place.”

“A majority of the Grand Jury believes that perjury may have been committed by one or more witnesses testifying before it,” the report said. “The Grand Jury recommends that the District Attorney seek appropriate indictments for such crimes where the evidence is compelling.”

The grand jury voted unanimously in concluding that “no widespread fraud took place in the Georgia 2020 presidential election that could result in overturning that election,” according to the report.

The grand jury had 23 members and three alternates.

An attorney for Trump did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the unsealed excerpts of the report. A spokeswoman for Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign posted a lengthy Twitter thread later Thursday criticizing the grand jury for apparently rejecting a variety of dubious fraud claims in Georgia’s election.

Fulton County Judge Robert McBurney on Monday approved the disclosure of three portions of the final report because they do not identify any witnesses. But he decided that disclosure of the entire report “at this time is not proper,” citing due process concerns.

Georgia was one of several key swing states that gave the Democratic nominee Biden his margin of victory in the Electoral College over the Republican Trump.

Trump after Election Day falsely claimed that he had won the popular election both nationally and in the swing states, arguing that he was denied victory in the Electoral College because of widespread popular ballot fraud. Trump said the election had been “rigged” against him, citing a plethora of unfounded conspiracy theories.

Multiple lawsuits filed in late 2020 by Trump’s campaign seeking to overturn state election results were almost entirely rejected in the courts.

After Raffensperger, who is Georgia’s top election official refused Trump’s request to find him enough votes to reverse his loss, the stage was set for Congress to confirm the results of the Electoral College on Jan. 6, 2021.

But on that day a violent crowd of Trump’s supporters, spurred by his false election claims, invaded the U.S. Capitol, causing lawmakers to flee for safety. Hours later, after the mob left the complex, a joint session of Congress confirmed Biden’s victory in the election.

Trump was impeached in the House on a charge of fomenting the riot, but later was acquitted in the Senate.

Willis, the Fulton County DA, in February 2021 opened a criminal investigation into Trump’s call to Raffensperger.

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Trump's mugshot and fingerprints will spread like wildfire.

"A spokesman for the Manhattan district attorney’s office confirmed the indictment and said prosecutors had reached out to Trump’s defense team to arrange a surrender. A person familiar with the matter, who was not authorized to discuss sealed proceedings, said the surrender was expected to happen next week. District Attorney Alvin Bragg left his office Thursday evening without commenting."

"Prosecutors scrutinized money paid to porn actor Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal, whom he feared would go public with claims that they had extramarital sexual encounters with him."

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“A grand jury will indict a ham sandwich.”

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Defendant Trump has never said the words, "I didn't do it." He's been too busy pointing fingers and deflecting and lying.

LUCIAN K. TRUSCOTT IV

AUG 3, 2023

I’m willing to bet that little detail escaped your attention as easily as it escaped mine:  despite copious opportunities in interviews, speeches at rallies, and rants on his social media platform, Truth Social, Defendant Trump has not come right out and denied the charges he has been accused of.  You’ve heard him say practically everything else – it’s a witch hunt, an illegal prosecution, a coverup of the crimes of the “Biden crime family,” on and on and on.  But you have not heard him say, I did not do it.

Politico today came out with a piece in which they detailed what they called, “the five pillars of his defense.”  They are, “Slow it down,” “Put 2024 politics front and center,” “Accuse Smith of criminalizing speech,” “Question Trump’s intent,” and “Attack D.C..”  Politico claimed to have discerned this strategy from an interview on NPR with Defendant Trump’s latest hire as an attorney, John Lauro.  I read the transcript of the interview, but among his mumblings and equivocations, I didn’t find what I would call any “pillars.”  Lauro, who appears to be positioning himself as the “reasonable one” on the Defendant’s legal team, led with this jewel: “He got advice from counsel — very, very wise and learned counsel — on a variety of constitutional and legal issues. So, it's a very straightforward defense that he had every right to advocate for a position that he believed in and his supporters believed in.” 

The obvious reaction to a description of Defendant Trump’s legal clown car as “wise and learned” is, what planet is this guy speaking from?  But it also rules out the classic position of defendants charged every day with crimes high and low:  SODDI, Some Other Dude Did it, a defense which has been suggested by actual, real learned attorneys all over the place on cable news – that Defendant Trump could claim he was misled by incompetent lawyers, at least one of whom has been sanctioned, and another disbarred for filing cases that wasted the courts’ time.  Then again, maybe it’s a clever move by an eminently reasonable attorney, because it will prevent the prosecution from presenting this photo and asking, “You mean this guy?”

I’m not even going to bother with a photograph of The Kraken.

Another theme of the Lauro defense is, “This is the first time in the history of the United States where a sitting administration is criminalizing speech against a prior administration.”

Silly me; I guess I wasn’t listening in a law class I took at West Point when they explained the whole administration v. administration theory of criminal law. Defendant Trump’s complaint isn’t with the Biden administration or even with Special Counsel Smith, it’s with grand jury, 23 American citizens voting in secret, who found that the evidence presented to them by prosecutors was enough to prove by the standard, “more likely than not,” that the Defendant committed the crimes he is accused of. 

Lauro was also good enough to inform us that Defendant Trump will not go to trial next year for conspiracy to defraud and obstruct the government and a government official and deny Americans their right to vote, but instead for his “cause.”  This is the way Lauro put it to NPR: “Well, political speech covers even information that turns out not to be true. So, it's all protected by free speech. But at the bottom, the government will never be able to prove beyond a reasonable doubt, as I said, that President Trump did not believe in the righteousness of his cause.”

You remember the cause Defendant Trump fought so hard for, don’t you, between November 14, 2020 and January 20, 2021, the dates covered by the indictment?  Having lost the general election by millions of votes and the electoral college by 306 to 232, the same margin Defendant Trump called a “landslide” when he won in 2016, he wanted the results thrown out and to be declared president by fiat.

Boy, was that ever an honorable cause, and boy is that ever a winning strategy. 

Lucian Truscott Newsletter

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"Hit list": Trump grand jurors face violent threats after names and addresses shared on QAnon forums

Experts warn of "chilling effect that personal targeting can have on jurors, on voters, on elected officials"

Users on far-right online forums are publishing private information about members of the Georgia grand jury that indicted former president Donald Trump and 18 of his allies in a sweeping criminal case focused on alleged 2020 election interference earlier this month, leading to jurors receiving threats online.

The Fulton County Sheriff's office announced last week that they were working on tracking down where the threats were coming from and were coordinating with "law enforcement partners to respond quickly to any credible threat and to ensure the safety of those individuals who carried out their civic duty."

After the release of the indictment and the grand jurors' names, users on far-right message boards began sharing their addresses, identities, social media accounts and other information targeting the jurors, according to Media Matters.

"It's a serious problem," Heidi Beirich, co-founder of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism, told Salon. "These grand jurors' names and other personal information have been linked on dangerous sites, in particular 4chan. That's where multiple terrorist manifestos have been posted and the site is filled with white supremacists and other extremists."

On a forum that has served as a hub for "Q," the central figure of the QAnon conspiracy theory, a user shared the names of the jurors alongside their addresses. Meanwhile, on another platform where the QAnon conspiracy theory originated, a user appeared to make a veiled threat about following these individuals to their residences and photographic their faces, Media Matters found.

Some users also made explicit threats aimed at the jurors on these message boards. One user referred to the grand jurors' names as a "hit list," prompting another user to reply with, "Based. Godspeed anons, you have all the long range rifles in the world."

In addition to facing online harassment, jurors are at risk of several other dangers — varying from receiving menacing phone calls to having people show up at their houses to swatting and even receiving death threats, Beirich said.

"We've seen this in other cases where people have been targeted by far-right figures," she added. "Their families can also be targeted. It can be a dangerous and scary situation. We can never forget the two poll workers in Georgia that Trump targeted and who had to go into hiding afterward."

After Trump posted on his social media website Truth Social that authorities were going "after those that fought to find the RIGGERS!" — Advance Democracy, a nonpartisan research group founded by Dan Jones, a former FBI investigator and staffer for the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee, pointed out that Trump supporters were employing the term "rigger" as a substitute for a racial slur in their online posts.

"There is a lot of anger out there on the part of pro-Trump actors and given the harassment that is faced by public officials lately, the same could happen here," Beirich said. "It's unfortunate Georgia law doesn't provide any protections. These people are doing their civil duty; they shouldn't have to face this."

Under Georgia law, the names of grand jurors are included on indictments – a practice aimed at promoting transparency. However, this approach has come under scrutiny given the continuing threats following the recent indictment of Trump and 18 co-defendants.

The only way Georgia or any other state would change the current practice is if there is a widespread outcry over the harassment or if there is actual violence that takes place, said Donald Haider-Markel, a University of Kansas political science professor who studies domestic extremism.

"Much like election workers after the 2020 election, we may begin to see more efforts from potential jurors to ask for an excuse not to serve on a [grand jury], which could also incite a change in the law," he added.

Verbal attacks and harassment have been common for a long time on the extreme right and left, Haider-Markel explained. He pointed to the example of "wanted" posters targeting doctors who perform abortions by the anti-abortion movement since the 1980s.

Individuals would go as far as disclosing the addresses, phone numbers, car descriptions, and license plates of abortion clinic workers, he said.

"This practice won't influence the way most people behave, but it only takes one true believer to use the information to harass and potentially use violence against the target and/or their family members," Haider-Markel said.

The same tactics have been employed by environmental and animal rights activists against those they believe are threatening the environment or exploiting animals, he continued. The Unabomber, for example, selected targets for his mailing campaign in the same manner, going after executives and researchers.

"Many observers believe that these practices have led to violence against abortion clinic workers and that these practices have led to individuals leaving the field," Haider-Markel said. "Certainly, there are plenty of stories about election workers that have left the field since 2020 because of the harassment and threats they faced."

These message boards have even gone as far as targeting two NBC News reporters who wrote about the grand jury incident. They had their own supposed addresses posted online, according to the Advance Democracy's latest report, Reuters found.

The group also identified posts containing aggressive language targeting Fani Willis, the Fulton County district attorney who brought state racketeering and conspiracy charges against Trump and his allies.

Trump himself has gone after the DA and accused her of prosecutorial misconduct. He also criticized her time in office, asserting that she had been excessively lenient on crime allowing Atlanta "to become one of the most dangerous cities anywhere in the world."

"He makes everything worse because he just doesn't seem to care what effect his words have in inciting his followers," Beirich said. "That has been true since his 2016 campaign. I'm sure Willis is facing a deluge of threats and will need protection."

His verbal attacks against Willis come as no surprise though as the former president has a habit of denigrating prosecutors who are investigating him.

Trump has used Truth Social to harass Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, New York's Attorney General Letitia James and special counsel Jack Smith, who brought two federal indictments against him.

In a post against Bragg, he warned that there would be "death and destruction" if he was indicted. Shortly after his threat, the Manhattan DA's office received a death threat letter with suspicious powder, which was later determined non-hazardous, with the letter saying: "ALVIN: I AM GOING TO KILL YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

In other posts, Trump has called Smith "deranged" and accused him of taking away his First Amendment Rights. The former president even called for U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan's recusal, saying he was calling for the move "on very powerful grounds."

Chutkan is the federal judge overseeing the criminal case of Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election in Washington DC.

Last week, a Texas woman was arrested and charged with threatening to kill Chutkan, The Associated Press reported. Abigail Jo Shry called the federal courthouse in Washington and left a threatening message.

"You are in our sights, we want to kill you," the documents said.

Despite public officials receiving such threats, the former president has continued his attacks. In some social media posts, he has even warned "If you go after me, I'm coming after you!"

"It's important not to underestimate the chilling effect that personal targeting and online harassment can have on jurors, on voters, on elected officials [and] on community members," Lindsay Schubiner, director of programs at Western States Center — an anti-extremism watchdog, told Salon. "And the publication of personal details, especially physical locations, is a huge risk factor for potential violence."

Schubiner pointed to the examples of mass shooters, who were active in online hate forums prior to their crimes. There's also a "big risk" for the translation of online harassment into direct physical violence, she added.

"Trump's words and his actions have normalized bigotry and harassment, and even political violence for a long time," Schubiner said. "From the beginning of his campaign, he opened the door to normalizing overt bigotry in politics and opened the door for bigoted and anti-democracy groups like the Proud Boys, like the Oath Keepers, to play a much more prominent role in our political system."

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These yt folks are losing their minds!

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By Stephen Millies

Two more atrocities prove that police in the U.S. almost never face any consequences for killing Black people. On April 17, grand juries refused to indict police for the deaths of Jayland Walker in Ohio and Timothy McCree Johnson in Virginia.

The Ohio and Virginia grand juries didn’t operate independently. As former Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals Solomon Wachtler noted, a district attorney can get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich.

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Hovvdy – True Love. 2021 : Grand Jury.

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“FOR THIRD TIME VINKLE JURY HAS DISAGREED,” Kingston Whig-Standard. February 23, 1933. Page 2. ---- Case to Be Called to the Attention of the Attorney-General of Ontario ---- For the third time in five month, a jury in Supreme Court has been unable to agree on a verdict of guilty or not guilty, in the case of Hess Vinkle, of the Township of Olden, charged with setting fire to Ross McGinnis’ barn. Yesterday evening after deliberating for more than seven hours, the jury found that they could not agree on a verdict and accordingly were discharged by Justice Raney, the case being put over til the next court; it will also be brought to the attention of the Attorney-General. Sir Alfred Morine acted for the Crown and A. E. Day represented Vinkle. 

The jury in the case retired shortly after eleven o'clock on Wednesday morning and at four o'clock returned with the announcement that they could not agree on a verdict.

"You have, of course," said Justice Raney, "heard of the two previous disagreements. I wish that you would try and reach a verdict and if I send you back I wonder if you can come to an agreement?"

“Well, your Lordship," said W. M. Campbell, foreman, "we can only try.” 

Whereupon the jury again retired and remained locked up for two hours more. At the end of that time they returned and Mr. Campbell announced that the jurymen were all unable to reach an agreement.

"I wonder if I sent you back there with your suppers, if you could finally agree," asked Justice Raney.

“I don't think there is any chance at all," replied Mr. Campbell. 

"Are you sure you are not following precedent, as the lawyers do?” 

"No" replied Mr. Campbell, "we have been deliberating most thoroughly and there seems hardly a chance at all of an agreement.” 

Justice Raney then said that be would discharge the jury and would traverse the case to the next court at the same time bringing the matter to the attention of the Attorney-General.

“What did you say, Mr. Day?" asked Justice Raney.

“I merely said thank you, my Lord," replied Mr. Day. "Don't thank me," remarked Justice Raney. 

Vinkle appeared in Supreme Court in September last on the same charge and the jury disagreed, while again December the jury failed to come to a decision.

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Dave Granlund

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The long-promised but ever-receding indictment of Trump for election interference in Georgia’s 2020 election will (supposedly) be issued this week. Or not. The grand jury is still taking testimony from witnesses—which seems inconsistent with an immediate release. On the other hand, Trump is increasing his attacks on Fulton County D.A. Fani Willis by falsely claiming that she had an affair with a gang leader whom she prosecuted. That slanderous, reprehensibly sexist attack on a female prosecutor is a reliable sign that an indictment is imminent.

          If the indictment is issued, it appears that D.A. Fani Willis is looking to charge the conspirators in a sprawling scheme to overturn the Georgia election. Previous reports indicate that Willis is pursuing the fake electors’ scheme. Testimony this week will touch on efforts to seize and manipulate voting machines in Coffee County Georgia. See CNN, Exclusive: Georgia prosecutors have messages showing Trump's team is behind voting system breach.

          The focus on Coffee County voting machines is significant because the efforts involved Trump legal advisors—and Trump himself. Per the CNN report above,

[T]he text messages and other court documents show how Trump lawyers and a group of hired operatives sought to access Coffee County’s voting systems in the days before January 6, 2021, as the former president’s allies continued a desperate hunt for any evidence of widespread fraud they could use to delay certification of Joe Biden’s electoral victory.  Last year, a former Trump official testified under oath to the House January 6 select committee that plans to access voting systems in Georgia were discussed in meetings at the White House, including during an Oval Office meeting on December 18, 2020,  that included Trump. 

          In short, when—and if—a Georgia grand jury issues an indictment, it may involve many defendants in a pervasive conspiracy. It will be ugly and provoke a media frenzy that will rival or exceed the J6 indictument.

          Whatever happens, the coming week will be filled with tension as the nation inches towards an unprecedented fourth indictment of a twice-impeached former president. (To be fair, the first indictment was unprecedented, so the fourth indictment sets a record never to be rivaled in our nation’s history.) As usual, the Republican Party’s response to Trump's corruption and criminality is to go into attack mode against the fictional “Biden crime family.” As we chafe under the unjustified attacks on the Biden family, we must remind ourselves that the viciousness and depravity of the attacks vary in direct proportion to Trump's legal jeopardy.

          Incontestable proof that the controversies over the Biden family are fabricated emerged from the appointment of David Weiss as special counsel to investigate Hunter Biden. Thirty Republican Senators sent a letter to Merrick Garland demanding the appointment of US Attorney David Weiss as special counsel in his ongoing investigation of Hunter Biden (on the theory that the absence of the special counsel designation hampered his investigation). On Friday, Garland appointed Weiss as special counsel after the plea deal Weiss negotiated with Hunter Biden fell apart.

          So, Republicans should be happy that they got exactly what they demanded—special counsel status for David Weiss, right? Nope! Republicans are now furious that David Weiss has been appointed special counsel because, according to Ted Cruz (who signed the letter), appointing David Weiss is part of a “cover-up.” See The Independent, Ted Cruz rails against Hunter Biden special counsel appointment that he requested.

          Per The Independent,

[Ted Cruz said,] “This appointment is camouflage and it’s cover-up. I think it’s disgraceful.” Mr Cruz is now accusing Mr Weiss of either being an “active participant” in covering up “criminality” and obstructing justice by “protecting” the president, or “he was just complicit.” “He was so weak that he couldn’t stop the partisans in main justice from turning it into a political effort to protect Joe Biden,” Mr Cruz said. Mr Cruz now accuses Mr Weiss of spending “the last five years covering it up”.

          Republicans know that there is nothing of substance in the investigations of Hunter Biden, so have turned to other measures. One GOP House member introduced an impeachment resolution against President Biden on Friday. See The Hill, Florida Republican rep. files articles of impeachment against Biden.

          The articles of impeachment are HERE. They are a garbage can containing every wild conspiracy theory, random email, and unsupported inference that has been circulating on right-wing social media for years. In short, the articles of impeachment say that Joe Biden's family members attempted to leverage their famous last name to generate business relationships. If trading on a family’s famous name constitutes a “high crime or misdemeanors,” tens of millions of Americans would have criminal records. Of course, the articles of impeachment will be futile, even if they make their way out of the House, which is doubtful.

          The ludicrousness of the charges against Biden pales in comparison to “business as usual” for the Trump family. Recall that Jared Kushner oversaw the Trump administration’s policy in the Middle East. Two months after leaving office, Kushner opened a brand-spanking new investment advisory firm and received a $2 billion investment from the Saudi Foreign Investment Fund—an investment that was so transparently corrupt that the advisors for the Saudi fund objected to the investment. In a coincidence too coincidental to be a coincidence, Prince Mohammed bin Salman overruled the objections of the Fund’s advisors and ordered that the investment be made nonetheless. Last week, the GOP Chair of the House Oversight Committee, James Comer, admitted that the investment by Saudi Arabia “crossed an ethics line.” See The Hill, Comer says Kushner ‘crossed the line of ethics’ with Saudi deal.

          There is, of course, a double standard that applies to Democrats—both in the media and in the justice system. The “nothing burger” story about Hunter Biden is being treated with faux seriousness and pretension by the media. See AP News, Biden's reelection bid faces vulnerabilities in wake of special counsel appointment. Meanwhile, Trump is facing his fourth indictment and the presumption is that he will merely pardon himself if elected—with barely a whimper from the media over that anticipated republic-shattering corruption.

          The double standard was addressed by Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo in an extended Tweet. I won’t reproduce the entire thread here, but Marshall begins as follows:

Let’s admit that every reporter in DC knows but most won’t say for fear of falling out of favor with the “both sides” rules of official DC: there is a two-tiered Justice System. One for Democrats, in which the most exacting focus on conflicts of interest are followed, often going well beyond not only what the law or established norms require but sometimes even basic logic. Meanwhile for Republicans most of these rules simply don’t apply. Ever. Does anyone think that a newly installed President Trump in 2025 would leave in place US Attorneys investigating matters tied to Trump or the Trump family for years into his administration? The very idea is absurd. In fact the Trump campaign is openly running on plans to thoroughly politicize federal law enforcement and target his enemies. Openly.

          Got that? Trump is openly discussing plans to use the DOJ to target his enemies, but the AP is wringing its hands over Hunter Biden’s efforts to convince people (wrongly) that his father would be swayed by input from his son on political matters.

 Concluding Thoughts.

          It is maddening, I know. But Trump's mantra of “the rules don’t apply to me” has convinced not only the Republican Party but the media. Our task is to remain focused on the only thing that matters: Defeating Trump (or his surrogate) so that we can ensure that the rules do apply to Trump.

          The psychological warfare that will be targeted against Democrats this week is a sign of desperation by a party with a leading candidate who has been (will be) indicted for a fourth time. Whatever difficulties Democrats face, it does not approach the seriousness of a single indictment, much less four. Let’s keep that fact in perspective as we prepare for another momentous week.

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Plans to make former-President Donald Trump's media company public appear to have hit another road block.

Digital World Acquisition Corp. — the special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) that has agreed to merge with Trump Media & Technology Group — said in a regulatory filing Monday that its board members have received subpoenas from a federal grand jury in the Southern District of New York related to due diligence regarding the deal.

Shares of the blank-check company plunged nearly 10% on the news Monday. The stock has now lost more than half its value this year, adding to doubts about the merger going through.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has already subpoenaed Digital World itself requesting similar information.

Digital World also announced in the SEC filing that one of its directors, Bruce Garelick, informed the company that he was resigning effective June 22.

The company said Garelick's resignation was "not the result of any disagreement with Digital World's operations, policies or practices." Yet the filing also said the subpoenas sought information regarding "communications with or about multiple individuals, and information regarding Rocket One Capital" — a Miami-based venture firm where Garelick is chief strategy officer.

Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) owns Truth Social, the Twitter-like app that Trump now uses following his ban from Twitter (TWTR) and Facebook (FB) in January 2021 after the violence at the Capitol.

The company said in a statement Monday that "TMTG is focused on reclaiming the American people's right to free expression. Every day, our team works tirelessly to sustain Truth Social's rapid growth, onboard new users, and add new features."

TMTG added that "we encourage — and will cooperate with — oversight that supports the SEC's important mission of protecting retail investors."