Trump, who was president between 2017 and 2021, was accused in the District of Columbia of attempts to reverse the results of the elections he lost in 2020 to Democrat Joe Biden and for allegedly instigating the assault on the Capitol, which took place on January 6, 2021.
The president-elect of the United States, Donald Trump, celebrated this Monday Special Prosecutor Jack Smith’s request to close the case in which the tycoon was accused of electoral subversion, highlighting that the process was a “political kidnapping”.
“It was a political kidnapping and the fact that something like this happened was a low point in the history of our country. However, I persisted and, against all odds, I WON”, declared the Republican, in a message on his social network, Truth Social.
This Monday, the prosecutor asked for the dismissal of both the case of the assault on the Capitol, which was handled by the federal court in the District of Columbia, and the case of classified documents, in a federal court in Florida.
In separate notes, Smith noted that Trump won the Nov. 5 election and that the Constitution prevents the Justice Department from pursuing criminal charges against a sitting president.
The Republican had mentioned during the campaign that on his first day as president he would fire Smith and order prosecutors to drop cases against him that he claims were motivated by political persecution.
Trump, who was president between 2017 and 2021, was accused in the District of Columbia of attempts to reverse the results of the elections he lost in 2020 to Democrat Joe Biden and for allegedly instigating the assault on the Capitol, which took place on January 6, 2021.
That day, a crowd of Republican supporters invaded the Congress building to try, unsuccessfully, to prevent the ratification of Biden’s electoral victory.
In Florida, Trump was accused of taking hundreds of confidential documents from his first term without permission and illegally retaining them in his mansion in Mar-a-Lago.
The prosecution has faced many difficulties in advancing both cases since the Supreme Court, with a conservative majority, ruled in July that the country’s former presidents enjoyed broad immunity from prosecution.
Smith’s decision to ‘throw in the towel’ represents a new legal victory for Trump, who has accumulated up to four criminal charges.
Last May, he made history by becoming the first former president convicted of a crime, after being found guilty in a New York state trial of falsifying business records to buy pornographic actress Stormy Daniels’ silence during the election campaign. of the USA in 2016.
Judge Juan Merchan on Friday postponed sentencing in the criminal trial, which was scheduled for November 26, but gave no indication of a possible new date.
