10 things you need to know today: July 19, 2023

Trump says he expects special counsel to indict him over Jan. 6, a U.S. soldier is detained after crossing into North Korea, and more

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Trump made his announcement about a possible indictment on Truth Social
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1. Trump says he faces likely indictment in federal Jan. 6 investigation

Former President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he is likely to be indicted over his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Trump said his lawyers received a letter from "Deranged Jack Smith," the special counsel investigating Trump, saying he was a target of the grand jury investigation into the events surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol by a mob of Trump supporters aiming to reverse Trump's loss to President Biden. Trump noted in a post on his Truth Social social media platform that such a letter "almost always means an Arrest and Indictment." Smith has already indicted Trump on charges that he mishandled secret government documents found at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida, endangering national security.

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Harold Maass is a contributing editor at The Week. He has been writing for The Week since the 2001 debut of the U.S. print edition and served as editor of TheWeek.com when it launched in 2008. Harold started his career as a newspaper reporter in South Florida and Haiti. He has previously worked for a variety of news outlets, including The Miami Herald, ABC News and Fox News, and for several years wrote a daily roundup of financial news for The Week and Yahoo Finance.