Associated Press
Special Counsel Jack Smith asked a federal Judge on Monday to dismiss the case accusing President-elect Donald Trump of plotting to overturn the 2020 election, citing longstanding Justice Department policy shielding Presidents from prosecution while in office.
The move announced in court papers marks the end of the Justice Department’s landmark effort to hold Trump accountable for what prosecutors called a criminal conspiracy to cling to power in the run-up to his supporters’ attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
In court papers. prosecutors said the Justice Department’s position “is that the Constitution requires that this case be dismissed before the defendant is inaugurated.”
The decision was expected after Smith’s team began assessing how to wind down both the 2020 election interference case and the separate classified documents case in the wake of Trump’s victory over Vice President Kamala Harris. The Justice Department believes Trump can no longer be tried in accordance with longstanding policy that says sitting Presidents cannot be prosecuted.
Trump has cast both cases as politically motivated, and had vowed to fire Smith as soon as he takes office in January.
The 2020 election case brought last year was once seen as one of the most serious legal threats facing the Republican as he vied to reclaim the White House. But it quickly stalled amid legal fighting over Trump’s sweeping claims of immunity from prosecution for acts he took while in the White House.
The U.S. Supreme Court in July ruled for the first time that former presidents have broad immunity from prosecution, and sent the case back to U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan to determine which allegations in the indictment, if any, could proceed to trial.
The case was just beginning to pick up steam again in the trial court in the weeks leading up this year’s election. Smith’s team in October filed a lengthy brief laying out new evidence they planned to use against him at trial, accusing him of using “resorting to crimes” in an increasingly desperate effort to overturn the will over voters after he lost to President Joe Biden.
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Republished with permission of The Associated Press.
66 comments
Trump is going to prison
November 25, 2024 at 2:36 pm
All I have left is sky screaming! Can’t wait to get my blue bracelet mommy bought for me. Think I’ll shave off all my hair too!
Trump is going to prison
November 25, 2024 at 7:35 pm
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Florida is Red
November 25, 2024 at 3:20 pm
The weaponization of the Justice Dept by Biden is coming to an end along with his horrible leagacy as President.
White Spiteful Demon
November 25, 2024 at 4:05 pm
You have no evidence and could not prove in Kangaroo courts,you are just delusional
MarvinM
November 25, 2024 at 6:00 pm
Biden got us out of the COVID pandemic with a combination of the help of a vaccine (yes, development of which was helped, or at least not hindered, by Trump), and a commitment to see money go directly into the hands of the people so they could spend it – on mortgage or rent (so they would not be foreclosed upon or evicted), on utilities (so they wouldn’t be cut off – also good for the utility company’s bottom line), on buying stuff from their local grocer, or services from their local barber, helping to keep those businesses alive. All stuff that stimulates an economy.
Now our post-COVID economy is the envy of the rest of the world. GDP up, unemployment down, stock market up, FED interest rate down.
That doesn’t sound like a horrible legacy to me.
Trump is going to prison
November 25, 2024 at 7:33 pm
Gdp and stock market hyperinflated thanks to inflation. Purchasing power of the dollar down significantly. Trump doesn’t need to end social security you Democrats are doing the work already. Imagine being so stupid as to believe that’s a good thing. I’m sure seniors will find comfort in knowing dog food tripled in cost with you biden worship. Same guy who made social security taxable too. Yeah, I’m sure all the people will sit around the campfire and sing songs celebrating this. See how stupid you are?
JD
November 25, 2024 at 7:37 pm
And it will happen under Trump’s watch and the rest of the GOP will implode because of it when they crucified in the midterms. Are you so stupid you don’t see that? LOL. We cannot wait for those MAGA tears.
MarvinM
November 25, 2024 at 11:37 pm
“Same guy who made social security taxable too”
What are you talking about? Biden did not make social security taxable any more than it already was under
other presidents.
Florida is Red
November 25, 2024 at 8:46 pm
No mention of the millions of illegals allowed in by Joe and Kammy. No mention of our foreign policy failures. Looks like Joe is trying to escalate the situation in Ukraine. Yes inflation is down now but prices increased in the double digits and remain there.
Ocean Joe
November 25, 2024 at 6:15 pm
Weaponization is when a Republican doesnt get away with breaking the law. Biden blundered by picking Garland, a weak, overly cautious fellow who dragged his feet and let the big one get away.
Anybody watching tv on Jan 6, saw it live: CAUSE (Trump summoning a mob to Washington on the day electoral votes were to be certified, and feeding them a speech telling them to go to the Capitol to fight for their government) and EFFECT (the mob ransacking the Capitol, disrupting the proceedings).
Moral: crime does pay, and Trump is above the law.
Trump is going to prison
November 25, 2024 at 7:45 pm
The fact that you lost the popular vote proves nobody gives a shit. You are still screaming at the sky hoping it responds. You people set fire to buildings with people inside. You people set off bombs in state capitals. You people You people set fire to churches. You people spray mace in unarmed people’s eyes. You people (Registered democrats) have been found guilty and sentenced for domestic terrorism crimes. You people hit others with bike locks, stab police horses and give old people heart attacks because you doxxed the wrong house. Yeah, your moral superiority bs ain’t working. You people far worse.
JD
November 25, 2024 at 7:49 pm
You sound like a zealout on the verge of violence from too much brain washing. Calm down there Pizza-Gate. You’re going to give yourself a stroke. Oh wait.. on second thought.
Tom
November 26, 2024 at 3:22 pm
And now we’ll get weaponization of the justice system by trump. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
A Day without MAGA Criminal
November 25, 2024 at 3:27 pm
He still under state charges and still will be a felon on the 20 of January
Trump is going to prison
November 25, 2024 at 4:31 pm
One is not a felon until sentencing. That’s the law stupid. And even if what you said was true, your candidate sucked so bad she lost to a so called felon. Suck on that!
Trump is going to prison.
November 25, 2024 at 7:34 pm
All this talk of sucking has me moist.
Rick and JD's gay man sex emporium
November 25, 2024 at 7:48 pm
Slow day at the emporium JD?
JD
November 25, 2024 at 7:51 pm
The Gimp was at your place pegging you loser. You’re a Pizza-Gate loser and that’s all you’ll ever be. Screaming at the sky. You act like the dude that sh1ts gold bricks and mad he doesn’t pee diamonds.
Rick and JD's gay man sex emporium
November 25, 2024 at 8:04 pm
Nope. Rick lives in Tennessee. You keep him in the basement and tap his head every once in awhile. Zed sure did instruct you on how to be a Democrat alright.
JD
November 25, 2024 at 8:09 pm
Since I’m and NPA, that’s a lie.
Why do you lie?
Michael
November 26, 2024 at 12:27 pm
Don’t show your ignorance in public. Felon is a result of conviction, regardless of whatever sentencing is assigned or not.
Tom
November 26, 2024 at 3:26 pm
Felon is just elon with an f in front of it 🙂
Red Storm
November 25, 2024 at 5:22 pm
Jrral, what did Kammy pay you to endorse her? Sounds like she was buying everyone off and of course she went through one billion. So what did she pay the google machine, Jrral?
THE SAGE EARL PITTS AMERICAN
November 25, 2024 at 6:54 pm
Jack Smith reportably took a big dookey log in his tighty whities when he heard Pam Bondi is gonna be the Attorney General and said, “My stink @ss is outta here…shut it down”.
Earl
Rick and JD's gay man sex emporium
November 25, 2024 at 7:55 pm
Jack smith is now part of the Rick and JD deliverance squad. The sound of banjo playing makes JD moist while he’s stealing monikers and being ultrafaggot. Dudes for harris strike again
JD
November 25, 2024 at 7:58 pm
You’re not even good at this. LOL. We’re watching you and your Dunning-Kruger effect in real time. LOL
Go back your Murdock brainwashing Pizza-Gate.
JD
November 25, 2024 at 8:07 pm
*I’m
JD
November 25, 2024 at 8:10 pm
Stealing monikers Willy RottenShitberg? LOL. Pizza-Gate is calling you to that non-existent basement.
JD
November 25, 2024 at 8:19 pm
I’m just angry because trump will never be sentenced for anything like me.. Being a convicted felon means I gotta keep working at this sex emporium with Rick in the basement.
JD
November 25, 2024 at 8:20 pm
I still have my white dudes for harris shirt and my blue bracelet so all is not lost.
JD
November 25, 2024 at 8:24 pm
You still suck at this Willy. Oy!… pun intended.
JD
November 25, 2024 at 8:24 pm
Got my hair cut off too and a brand new bluesky account. Looking forward to eating alone this Thanksgiving because all the non felons I know voted for the orange man.
JD
November 25, 2024 at 8:27 pm
Oh, I also canceled my x account and drove my tesla into a lake after I realized my car payments were being used to fund trump.
JD
November 25, 2024 at 8:30 pm
Someone painted “RUMP” next to the “T” after it was pulled out of water which is why I’m so salty.
JD
November 25, 2024 at 8:33 pm
That and my VD
JD
November 25, 2024 at 8:38 pm
Looks like the spider caught a couple flies. Gotta go make sure they get converted into democrat and assume the position. I’ll be back after I bring out the Rick.
JD
November 25, 2024 at 8:33 pm
It’s funny, RottenShitberg, because I have a large ICE powered truck and have long thought Musk is a blowhard tool – kind of like you, but with more balls and money. He steals people’s ideas because he doesn’t have any of his own (like you). He thinks entrepreneuralism is supposed to be like chewing glass (it’s not). And what does his billions get him? More chaos and crazy – like a psychopath (like you).
JD
November 25, 2024 at 9:04 pm
My meds are wearing off
JD
November 25, 2024 at 8:28 pm
That’s the best you got Willy Wonka? PAPAPA-Thetic
All that MCA blood money didn’t buy you any brains.
JD
November 25, 2024 at 8:40 pm
Yeah, they are good democrats alright. Rick seems to like them.
JD
November 25, 2024 at 8:45 pm
They all own a prius.
Billy Is a RedTard
November 25, 2024 at 8:44 pm
Just give it up PizzaGate. LOL
JD
November 25, 2024 at 8:47 pm
It’s been a tough election cycle for me but l am committed to being a loser forever.
JD
November 25, 2024 at 8:49 pm
I lash out alot because obamacare didn’t cover my mental illness
JD
November 25, 2024 at 8:50 pm
And insane asylums were nit in that big infrastructure thing
JD
November 25, 2024 at 8:50 pm
*not
JD
November 25, 2024 at 8:56 pm
Yeah, I gave all my money to team harris and all I have to show for it is this lousy t shirt. Still it feels good to know my money went to bionce.
JD
November 25, 2024 at 8:59 pm
Yeah, my groceries cost twice as much but I’m starving in joy.
Billy is still JD's Bitch
November 26, 2024 at 4:14 am
LOL – still crying I see and false persona.
Billy is still JD's Bitch
November 26, 2024 at 4:13 am
See, you steal people’s persona and then cry at the sky, expecting it to answer.
I am so loving your MAGA tears the next four years as Trump f@cks up over and over and the people crucify him. You all FAFO.
LOL. I don’t even want to comment on the poltics anymore, because it doesn’t matter. You’re much more fun, PizzaGate.
JD
November 26, 2024 at 6:18 am
There is no joy in the democrat party. Look at me. I’m the perfect example.
JD
November 26, 2024 at 6:19 am
Without my meds, I’m stark raving mad.
JD
November 26, 2024 at 6:21 am
The next 4 years are going to be painful. We might have to sell the emporium because Rick the gimp is an illegal.
Billy is still JD's Bitch
November 26, 2024 at 8:06 am
Still my bitch, PizzaGate. And the fiscal pain will be from your Chump’s tariffs.
JD
November 26, 2024 at 9:02 am
I woke up with the worst hemroid ever. Plus I’m out of meds as you can see. Obamacare failed me.
Billy is still JD's Bitch
November 26, 2024 at 9:08 am
See comment below (I wanted the email to reply to you).
Billy is still JD's Bitch
November 26, 2024 at 9:06 am
I guess the Gimp was railing you while you were trying to type.
It’s hemorrhoid and ACA.
Are you even trying? LOL
Again, still my bitch old man.
JD
November 26, 2024 at 10:43 am
Democrats are weird. Especially me.
JD
November 26, 2024 at 10:42 am
The democrat party needs to show me how to act like an adult and have meaningful conversations since my parents never bothered to. The only thing my daddy ever did was come home drunk and ass rape me. I loved all 2 minutes of it
Billy Is still JD's bitch
November 26, 2024 at 11:11 am
You’re getting better, but not up to snuff.
And when you can come onto the forum and stop lamblasting posts that aren’t directed at you like a crazy zealot, maybe then you’ll get a civil conversation.
Now stop fletching the Gimp from your BBC’s deposit and get to work Chump Humper.
JD
November 26, 2024 at 11:20 am
I’m so easily triggered.
JD
November 26, 2024 at 11:21 am
I am foaming at the mouth without my meds
JD
November 26, 2024 at 11:22 am
Drinking horse jizz with tampon tim was amazing
JD
November 26, 2024 at 11:22 am
I call them sea monkey enzymes
Billy is still JD's bitch
November 26, 2024 at 12:03 pm
You are still losing. That Gimp must have pounded your ansu so much it rattled your brain. LOL
Still my bitch, PizzaGate. Keep screaming at the sky, the MAGA tears are great.
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