President-elect Donald Trump celebrated this Monday that federal special prosecutor Jack Smith dropped the criminal cases against him for the assault on the Capitol and for taking classified documents from the White House.
“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 and, against all odds, I WON,” declared the Republican in a message on his Truth Social platform.
The prosecutor requested this Monday to dismiss both the case of the assault on the Capitol, which was being handled by the federal court of the District of Columbia, and that of the classified documents, in a federal court in Florida.
In separate writings, Smith stressed that Trump won the elections on November 5 and that the Constitution prevents the Department of Justice from proceeding with criminal accusations against a sitting president.
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Trump said during the campaign that on his first day as president he would fire Smith and order the Attorney General’s Office to close the cases against him that he maintains were motivated by political persecution.
Trump, who was already president between 2017 and 2021, is accused in the District of Columbia for his attempts to reverse the results of the elections that he lost in 2020 against Joe Biden and for allegedly instigating the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021. .
That day, a mob of the Republican’s supporters broke into the Congress building to try, unsuccessfully, to stop the ratification of Biden’s electoral victory.
In Florida, Trump is accused of taking hundreds of classified documents from his first term without permission and illegally retaining them in his Mar-a-Lago mansion.
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The Prosecutor’s Office had faced many difficulties in advancing both cases since the Supreme Court, with a conservative majority, ruled in July that the country’s former presidents enjoy broad judicial immunity.
Smith’s decision to throw in the towel represents a new judicial victory for Trump, who had accumulated up to four charges for criminal offenses.
Last May, he made history by becoming the first former president convicted of a crime, after he was found guilty in a New York state trial of falsifying business records to buy the silence of former porn actress Stormy Daniels in the US election campaign. 2016.
Judge Juan Merchan on Friday delayed the sentencing of the criminal trial, which was scheduled for November 26, but gave no indications for a possible new date.
A fourth criminal case weighs on Trump, in a Georgia state court, for electoral interference in the 2020 elections, but the case was affected by the romantic relationship that prosecutor Fani Willis had with a subordinate.
With information from EFE
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