A decision by the US Supreme Court to protect former presidents from prosecution had major consequences for the election fraud case against Donald Trump. The prosecutors are making a new attempt.
A revised indictment has been filed in the federal case against former US President Donald Trump for attempted election fraud. Special investigator Jack Smith’s team resubmitted the document after the US Supreme Court, with its right-wing conservative majority, ruled in early July that Trump was immune from certain official acts. Because of the court’s historic decision, Smith and his team had to adjust the indictment against Trump in order to be able to move the case forward.
The new version is a little shorter and excludes some passages from the original indictment, including Trump’s interactions with the Justice Department. However, the four charges against him remain unchanged. Trump is accused of conspiracy to defraud the United States and conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding.
Trump supporters violently stormed the Capitol in Washington on January 6, 2021. Before storming the Capitol, Trump had tried on various levels to overturn the result of the 2020 presidential election and reverse his defeat to Democrat Joe Biden. The Republican was charged at the federal level in the US capital Washington – a similar charge was also brought against him in the US state of Georgia.
Trump’s team has been trying for months, with some success, to delay these and other criminal proceedings against him and to avoid trials. Experts believe it is impossible that the Washington case could go to trial before the presidential election in early November.
However, the Republican was convicted in New York at the end of May for illegally making hush money payments to a porn actress. The sentence has not yet been announced. Trump has announced that he will appeal the verdict. The Republican has maintained his innocence in all proceedings and portrays the investigations against him as an attempt by his political opponents to sideline him.
Source: Stern
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