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Jan. 6 Rioters Have Bad News for Trump About D.C. Juries<!-- wp:html --><p>Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/Reuters</p> <p>However <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-classified-documents-mar-a-lago-jury-selection-will-be-a-maga-country-minefield">Donald Trump fares in the Mar-a-Lago documents case</a> in Florida, he will face a much tougher fight if the target letter he received on Sunday is followed by an <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/a-jan-6-trump-indictment-would-include-very-serious-charges">indictment for attempting to overthrow the 2020 election</a>.</p> <p>Those charges would almost certainly be brought in Washington, D.C., where juries have convicted one Jan. 6 defendant after another.</p> <p>“If I was Donald J. Trump, the last place on earth I’d want to be tried other than Atlanta, Georgia, is Washington, D.C.,” Samuel Shamansky, attorney for convicted Jan. 6 rioter Dustin Thompson, told The Daily Beast.</p> <p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/jan-6-rioters-have-bad-news-for-donald-trump-about-washington-dc-juries">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/Reuters

However Donald Trump fares in the Mar-a-Lago documents case in Florida, he will face a much tougher fight if the target letter he received on Sunday is followed by an indictment for attempting to overthrow the 2020 election.

Those charges would almost certainly be brought in Washington, D.C., where juries have convicted one Jan. 6 defendant after another.

“If I was Donald J. Trump, the last place on earth I’d want to be tried other than Atlanta, Georgia, is Washington, D.C.,” Samuel Shamansky, attorney for convicted Jan. 6 rioter Dustin Thompson, told The Daily Beast.

Read more at The Daily Beast.

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