Special Inspector Jack Smith be indicted President Trump appears in Washington, D.C. again after the Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity.
As TGP reported last week, special counsel Jack Smith has decided not to hold a “mini-trial” before the November election and is reportedly “carefully revising” the January 6 case against Trump in light of the Supreme Court’s ruling that the president is immune from prosecution. Bloomberg.
After the Supreme Court ruled that Trump is immune from prosecution for his “official acts” as president, prosecutor Jack Smith presented evidence to a new grand jury in an effort to re-open the case.
A grand jury indicted Trump on the same charges. 4 rates The charges, which were made public in August, include: conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct official proceedings, obstruction and attempted obstruction of official proceedings, and conspiracy to commit fraud.
“The superseding indictment presented to a new grand jury, which had not previously heard the evidence in this case, reflects the government’s effort to respect and implement the Supreme Court’s ruling and its remand instructions,” Smith’s team wrote in the indictment. A 36-page indictment.
Trump’s lawyers argued that Trump could be immune from federal prosecution for “crimes” he allegedly committed while he was president of the United States.
In Jack Smith’s indictment last August, prosecutors alleged that President Trump used the Justice Department to try to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
In the new indictment, prosecutor Jack Smith argues that Trump’s actions were not “official acts” because his rallies were privately funded and “privately organized.”
Federal prosecutors also alleged that Trump used his X/Twitter account for “personal purposes.”
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