He special prosecutor in charge of the investigation to Donald Trump in it Capitol assault case presented a New indictment against former president American downplaying the allegations to conform to the Supreme Court’s ruling on the immunity of his actions as president.
Jack Smith maintains the four charges against himlike that of conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, but limits some allegations about his plans electoral subversion.
According to statements from the special prosecutor’s office cited by the network CNNthis new accusationpresented to a new grand jury that had not previously heard evidence in the case, reflects the Government’s efforts to respect and implement the Supreme Court’s ruling.
The past July 1st The highest US court granted Trump a partial immunity.
By six votes to three, those of the progressive judges, concluded that “A former president has the right to absolute immunity facing criminal proceedings for actions within its constitutional authority“, but established that “There is no immunity for unofficial acts.”
Full immunity during the Republican’s time in the White House would have ended the case against him in Washington DC, but that failed further ambiguous forced to the lower courts determine more precisely which acts could be considered official and which could not.
Smith presented the new minutes to the District Court of the District of Columbia.
What changes have occurred in the Trump case?
The original accusationof 45 pages, has been reduced to 36, and removes a number of allegations which, according to the conservative majority of the Supreme Court, had been presented incorrectly.
Specifically, according to the newspaper The Washington Postthese allegations are linked to Trump’s efforts to that the Department of Justice will support his claim that there had been electoral fraud in the 2020 elections, which were won by Democrat Joe Biden.
Instead of six co-conspirators Now only Five appear. According to The Washington Posta person who sources familiar with the case had identified as Jeffrey Clark, a former agent of that Department, is no longer there.
In its July decision, the Supreme Court noted that Trump no could cope charges related to their Exchanges with members of the Department of Justice considering that its interaction With that cabinet he was part of the duties of his position.
The newspaper The New York Times He specified that this New accusation comes just days before both the Prosecutor’s Office like the lawyers of Trump had planned introduce to the judge in charge of the case their respective proposals on how to evaluate the impact of the Supreme Court’s decision.
In his day, Trumpcandidate for reelection in the November 5 electionsdescribed as “victory for democracy” the high court’s ruling, while President Joe Biden He considered that it set a “dangerous “precedent” in determining, in its opinion, that Any president “can feel free to ignore the law” without facing consequences.
What did Trump say about his new accusation of assault on the Capitol?
Donald Trump He called it ridiculous new accusation against him filed in Washington in the case of the assault on the Capitol and stated that should be dismissed.
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Trump considered on his social network, Truth Social, that the special prosecutor in charge of the investigation, the “deranged” Jack Smith, has filed that “ridiculous” accusation against him “in an effort to Resurrecting a Dead Witch Hunt in Washington DCin an act of desperation and to save face.”