Hoping an indictment will get rid of Donald Trump? Think again.

Donald Trump said he would still run for office even if he was indicted according to a statement the former president made before a recent speech in Washington. 

“Oh, absolutely, I won’t even think about leaving,” Trump told Newsmax's James Rosen when the journalist asked the former president about dropping out of the 2024 election ahead of Trump's speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).

“Probably, it’ll enhance my numbers, but it’s a very bad thing for America. It’s very bad for the country,” Trump added, according to The Hill’s Stephen Neukan. 

Since leaving office, Trump has been at the center of a number of high-profile state and federal investigations that could see the former president indicted. 

In November 2022, Jack Smith was appointed by United States Attorney General Merrick Garland to head a criminal investigation into the former president’s actions during the January 6th Capitol Attack as well as his handling of classified government documents. 

The more interesting case against Trump, however, is Georgia’s investigation into the former president’s actions during the state's 2022 election. 

Portions of Georgia’s special grand jury report were released on February 16th and one of the jury forepersons later revealed that the number of people they recommend for indictment was “not a short list,” and alluded that Trump himself could be on it. 

"There are certainly names that you will recognize, yes,” grand jury foreperson Emily Kohrs told the host of Nightly News. “There are names also you might not recognize."

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"I don’t think that there are any giant plot twists coming. I don’t think there's any giant ‘that’s not the way I expected this to go at all’ moments," Kohrs continued. 

“I would not expect you to be shocked," the Georgia grand jury foreperson added. When asked if Trump would be on the list, she said: “Potentially, it might.”

While Trump didn’t spend much time addressing the Department of Justice's investigation into his actions during his speech at CPAC, he did take aim at Georgia's investigation as well as special grand jury foreperson Emily Kohrs for her unorthodox television interview. 

“Jury foreman, a rather bizarre young woman is going around doing media interviews and saying exactly what’s going on, one of many grand juries,” Trump told the crowd. 

The former president added that his opponents would “do anything they can to hurt me politically” before saying “they’re afraid of me and they’re afraid of you, that’s what it is.”

Unfortunately, most indictments Trump is facing wouldn’t stop him from being able to run for office according to experts who spoke with Newsweek’s Thomas Kika. 

“Only a conviction related to inciting an insurrection would prevent him from running for president again,” Kika noted. 

Whether or not Trump will be indicted for inciting an insurrection or for any other alleged crime he's committed has yet to be seen. But we do know if the former president is indicted, and does run, it will only serve to further divide an already fractured country.