After his victory in the elections of USA, Donald Trump You now have a new reason to celebrate. This Monday, the District Columbia Justice closed the case in which he was investigated for electoral interference and the assault on the Capitol.
The decision was made by the federal judge of DC, Tanya Chutkan, at the request of the federal prosecutor Jack Smith, in what represents an old custom of Department of Justice to dismiss judicial proceedings for sitting US leaders. The Republican will take office on January 20.
The judicial investigation, now dismissed, accused Trump of alleged attempts to reverse the result of the 2020 presidential elections, after the defeat he suffered against Joe Biden. He was also being investigated for instigating the attack on the Capitol on January 6when the representatives were preparing to confirm the result of the elections.
Once the decision of Smith, The president-elect congratulated himself through social networks for having “persevered” in defending his innocence. “It was a political kidnapping and that something like that could have happened was a low point in the history of our country. However, I persevered, against all odds, and WON.” declared on his Truth Social platform.
The magnate’s campaign team described the prosecutor’s recommendation as “a great victory”. “Today’s decision by the Department of Justice ends unconstitutional federal cases against President Trump, and is a major victory for the rule of law,” he said. Steven Cheung your communications director.
Donald Trump and the legal proceedings against him
During the election campaign, trump did not spare criticism of him Prosecutor Smith. Furthermore, he announced that on his first day as president will fire the state lawyer and will order all cases against him to be closed, since, according to what he says, he is under a “political persecution”.
Last May, the Republican became the first and only former US president to be criminally convicted by Justice. A jury of New York found it guilty of altering documents to cover the irregular payments he made to the porn actress Stormy Daniells to buy her silence and thus cover up a sexual affair between the two.
Last week, the judge in the case, Juan Merchan, ordered postpone the sentence which was going to take place this November 26 without announcing a new date. In parallel, he asked the prosecutors and the president-elect’s lawyers to present proposals to coordinate the steps to follow now that the convicted man is the future president.
Trump’s defenders ask that the magistrate completely dismiss the case, despite the jury’s conviction. Meanwhile, the prosecution proposed postponing the sentence without a date, which could lead to a delay of four years.
In Georgia, the future American president faces another judicial process for try to annul his electoral defeat in the 2020 elections. There, like what happens in New York, the magnate and his lawyers do not have the possibility of interfering in the process by dismissing the case. It will be Justice that must decide which path to take now that the highest authority in the country will be sitting in the dock.
Source: Ambito
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