Inevitable and predictable. For most of the American press, special prosecutor Jack Smith simply acknowledged it: by winning the US presidential election on Tuesday, November 5, Donald Trump became practically untouchable on a legal level.
As expected, the magistrate in charge of investigating two of the four criminal proceedings initiated against the president-elect for his attempts to reverse the results of the 2020 elections and the retention of confidential documents after his departure from the White House, recommended, the Monday, November 25, the provisional classification was published, which federal judge Tanya Chutkan quickly approved.
This classification was inevitable due to the Republican candidate’s promises of retaliation, CNN believes. “Although prosecutors thought they could keep cases on life support during Trump’s second presidency, the president-elect had already expressed his intention to fire Smith and his team. “, watch journalists Tierney Sneed, Devan Cole and John Fritze, specialists in political-judicial issues for the channel.
Predictable, this result was due, according to them, to the delaying strategy of the Republican candidate, which guaranteed that no trial could be opened before his election and it is this victory that finally “forced the hand” of the Attorney General, forced to bow due to the judicial immunity that the president-elect will benefit from upon his return to the White House on January 20, 2025. As Judge Chutkan recalled, this immunity will no longer apply once his term ends. mandate. but he is “It is highly unlikely that a prosecutor will attempt to bring the same charges in the future, especially since the statute of limitations (…) will have expired when Trump leaves office,” in 2029, judges ABC News.
“A great victory for the rule of law”
“Donald Trump achieved this legal feat thanks to a simple and effective strategy of delaying his election”adds David Graham on the website of the monthly cultural magazine The Atlantic. the 45my President of the United States, soon to be the 47thmyunderstood “that the elements that [faisaient] the greatness of the American system [pouvaient] also be exploited in a cynical way. When you have deep enough pockets and very few scruples, you can get away with procedural motions, appeals and tricks, until the prosecution is paralyzed. And, in Trump’s case, time was the key to victory, not because he was able to postpone the case indefinitely, but because he will soon be president again, with the Department of Justice under his authority.He also judges, denouncing an attack on the separation of powers.
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