Almost four years after the January 6, 2021 assault launched by his followers against the Capitol, Donald Trump, without a doubt, definitively escapes his criminal responsibilities. The president-elect registered, on Monday, November 25, a decisive victory in his confrontation with the justice system of his country, which had subjected him to a wave of accusations in 2023 in four different cases.
After noting the return of Donald Trump to the White House, special prosecutor Jack Smith asked that the charges against him be dropped in the two federal investigations for which he is responsible: that of January 6 and that of illegal detention and concealment of hundreds of people. Classified documents of the former president at his Florida residence at Mar-a-Lago.
In his letter to Judge Tanya Chutkan – who later validated his request – Jack Smith highlighted the “unprecedented circumstances” : or an ordinary citizen accused in a highly advanced federal investigation, who is then elected president. The special prosecutor, limited by presidential immunity, insists that dropping the charges does not in any way undermine the credibility of the investigations. “the seriousness of the crimes” at the center of the charges. Theoretically, at the end of Donald Trump’s term in 2028, the prosecutor’s office could be reactivated. But this seems unlikely, especially since the limitation issue would lead to a new court battle.
Inclination
In August 2023, a grand jury determined that the charges were sufficient to warrant the impeachment of Donald Trump, due to his role in attempting to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power. Defeated by Joe Biden in the November 2020 election, Donald Trump organized a campaign of lies about imaginary fraud and then put pressure on senior officials in the Department of Justice, as well as in several battleground states (Georgia, Arizona, etc.) . Finally, with his advisors, he attempted to promote alternative slates of electors, trying in vain to convince Vice President Mike Pence to block certification of the results in Congress. The calls to mobilize his followers on January 6, 2021, which ended up attacking the police around the Capitol and forcing entry into the building, were the final stage of this conspiracy.
Of all of them, the archive of classified documents, which Donald Trump had taken en masse when leaving the White House, was undoubtedly the most well-founded, the most incontestable, the most solid from an evidentiary and legal point of view. The search by the federal police (FBI) in Mar-a-Lago in August 2022, the video surveillance images, the communications between the protagonists: everything indicated the desire to remove classified documents, stored in violation of mandatory security regulations .
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