New Accuise on Trump

Special Prosecutor Jack Smith has filed a new indictment against Donald Trump in the case involving an alleged plot to prevent the results of the 2020 elections.

This comes after a landmark Supreme Court ruling granting the presidents broad immunity for official acts, and shortly before pre-election periods for submitting such charges were closed.

The new incident comes 10 days before a law department policy known as “rule of 60 days” went into effect, preventing any new presentation of charges against the former president, who is again the republican candidate for the White House.

The original 45-page Act has been reduced to 36 pages, after prosecutors dropped a series of charges that the conservative majority of the Supreme Court said had been wrongly submitted.

In particular, those charges relate to a Trump effort in late 2020 to make the Justice Department support his claims of potential voter fraud.

Removing these charges means that the indictment no longer accuses someone identified in the original document as only “Co-operative No. 4”, but that people familiar with the case have said he is former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark. Those people spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss parts of the investigation that had not been made public.