Jack Smith, The United States special prosecutor filed a request Monday to drop four federal charges that persisted against President-elect Donald Trump following his Nov. 5 election victory over Kamala Harris. The federal prosecutor believes the charges should be dropped now that Trump has won the election and will be sworn in as president in January. An investigation has been opened against the tycoon for his attempts to interfere and overturn the results of the 2020 election, which he lost to current President Joe Biden and which ended with the storming of the State Capitol -United. The incident left five people dead in the riots and thousands of participants arrested.
“The position of Department (of Justice) is that the Constitution requires that this case be dismissed before the accused takes possession of it,” Smith said in a six-page document published by American media. asset He faced four charges: conspiracy against USA, to prevent the Congress certifying the election results, for conspiracy against the right to vote and for attempting to obstruct the certification of the minutes.
The tycoon was indicted in August by a Washington grand jury. The prosecution argued that Trump manipulated and encouraged for protesters to believe that then-Vice President Mike Pence could change the election results. After his refusal, his supporters stormed the Capitol on January 6.
This is the second time that US prosecutors have made a request favorable to Trump since his election victory. On November 19, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office proposed delaying sentencing in the corruption case against actress Stormy Daniels until 2029. “Until the end of the defendant’s next presidential term,” according to the text that the prosecutor’s office sent to the judge. Juan Merchan.
asset He was convicted in May 2023 of 34 counts of falsifying business records.. These were payments made to his then-lawyer, Michael Cohen, to repay the $130,000 with which he had purchased the silence of porn actress Stormy Daniels. SO, Cohen gave this amount to the actress money so that she would not talk about an alleged extramarital affair with Trump before the November 2016 election. However, Trump has denied the existence of an extramarital affair. These reimbursements were falsely recorded in the accounting records as “legal expenses”.
