Federal prosecutors have notified Donald Trump that he is a criminal target and likely to be indicted imminently in a probe into alleged classified documents – even as the Justice Department declined to delay charges to give time to investigate allegations of witness tampering submitted by the former president’s legal team, according to multiple people on Wednesday familiar with the case. …

An historic federal indictment crafted by Special Counsel Jack Smith could be handed up by a federal grand jury against the 45th president as early as this week, the sources said.

[If so, I’d bet that Smith will indict Trump on either obstruction or false statements rather than the potential Espionage Act counts. To indict on those is to raise questions about why the DoJ didn’t indict Hillary Clinton or Mike Pence on the same issues, and would certainly put pressure on the special counsel investigating the same alleged violations from Joe Biden. Solomon has a lot more on this at the link. — Ed]