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Brewha
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a year ago

Trump indicted again in federal election interference case following Supreme Court immunity ruling

WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump has once again been indicted over his efforts to overturn his 2020 presidential election loss, an effort that culminated in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

A federal grand jury on Tuesday returned a superseding indictment that charges Trump with the same four counts he faced in the original indictment last August: conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding and conspiracy against rights.

The new indictment was returned following the Supreme Court's decision on presidential immunity last month, which barred the government from using certain "official acts" Trump took in his role as president in its prosecution.

“The superseding indictment, which was presented to a new grand jury that had not previously heard evidence in this case, reflects the Government’s efforts to respect and implement the Supreme Court’s holdings and remand instructions,” special counsel Jack Smith's office said in Tuesday's filing.

Trump blasted the new indictment as “shocking” and “a direct attack on democracy” in a string of social media posts. “The case has to do with ‘Conspiracy to Obstruct the 2020 Presidential Election,’ when they are the ones that did the obstructing of the Election, not me,” he wrote. His campaign also sent out a fundraising email within two hours of the filing, saying Trump was "just indicted again" and urging supporters to "stand with Trump" by donating.

Time to show your love of God and country with a donation - again.

While the charges are the same, some of the evidence has been whittled down in light of the Supreme Court's ruling, which expanded what could be considered official acts.

Gone from the superseding indictment are the sections that detailed Trump’s conversations with Justice Department officials in which he is alleged to have asked them to support his false claims of election fraud. Former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark, who backed Trump's claims and was almost named acting attorney general, has been removed as an unindicted co-conspirator. Prosecutors also removed references to advice Trump got from or conversations he had with direct advisers in the Oval Office, like White House counsel Pat Cipollone, and references to some of his tweets from that period.

The new indictment also notes Vice President Mike Pence's role as president of the Senate on the day of the electoral vote count — Jan. 6, 2021 — in an apparent nod to concerns from the Supreme Court about whether evidence of Trump's campaign to get Pence to intervene in the count should be allowed. The Supreme Court ruling said, "Whenever the President and Vice President discuss their official responsibilities, they engage in official conduct," and there is therefore a "presumption of immunity" around their conversations. But the ruling also noted that Pence's responsibility of "'presiding over the Senate' is 'not an ‘executive branch’ function.”

Other parts of the new indictment are the same, with prosecutors again taking the position that Trump didn't actually believe the lies he was spreading in the wake of his 2020 election loss and that he knew that they were, in fact, lies.

“These claims were unsupported, objectively unreasonable, and ever-changing, and the Defendant and his co-conspirators repeated them even after they were publicly disproven," the indictment says. "These claims were false, and the Defendant knew that they were false."

While many Jan. 6 defendants have told courts that they now recognize they were tricked and lament that they were “gullible” enough to fall for the misinformation about the 2020 election that Trump promoted, Trump himself has never publicly admitted that he realizes he was spreading misinformation.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/trump-indicted-federal-election-interference-case-supreme-court-immuni-rcna168503

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DrMaddVibe
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a year ago

You can smell the desperation Smith is cookin'![gonzo]

MaduroJorge
Connoisseur

a year ago

Smith accelerating the case before Nov5 to influence election.
Spinning his wicked wheels. not gonna happen!!

ZRX1200
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a year ago

Jack Smith is trash, a human paraquat.

Whistlebritches
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a year ago

Only a complete moron cannot see that this is just one more attempt at removing a political opponent.It much resembles the attempts made in Venezuela and other third world banana republics.Is this really how we want to be seen worldwide. I say we cut the head off the snake and regroup.

ZRX1200
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a year ago

Tard: no elEctIoN inTerFERence!!!!!!

Brewha
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a year ago

da nile be risin'.....quick!

HockeyDad
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a year ago

They got him this time!

Brewha
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a year ago

Yeah, but who’s gonna believe that….

RayR
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a year ago

#10

Jack Smith is trash, a human paraquat.

ZRX1200 wrote:

+1

A creepy lizard dude too. 🦎

rfenst
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a year ago

#11

Smith accelerating the case before Nov5 to influence election.
Spinning his wicked wheels. not gonna happen!!

MaduroJorge wrote:

No, he had short proscribed time-limit to refile the exact same charges now- in terms of the recent SCOTUS ruling for Trump on immunity.

rfenst
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a year ago

#12

Smith accelerating the case before Nov5 to influence election.
Spinning his wicked wheels. not gonna happen!!

MaduroJorge wrote:

Of course not. Unless he loses, in which case he is dead-meat.

drglnc
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a year ago

#13

Smith accelerating the case before Nov5 to influence election.
Spinning his wicked wheels. not gonna happen!!

MaduroJorge wrote:

Wrong…

drglnc
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a year ago

#14

Whistlebritches wrote:

Yes… this is how we want to be seen. A country that prosecutes criminals and punishes those that try to stop the legal transfer of power after a free and fair election.

MaduroJorge
Connoisseur

a year ago

#15

The gig is up for Smith, the illegitimate so called Special Counsel foot soldier

Stop appealing the reversals.
Abort the political hit mission ordered
by the Obama/Clinton Mob bosses and Consigliere Garland.
Read the DOJ manual on the subject.

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Whistlebritches
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a year ago

#16

Yes… this is how we want to be seen. A country that prosecutes criminals and punishes those that try to stop the legal transfer of power after a free and fair election.

drglnc wrote:

Idjit........try again Buckwheat

ZRX1200
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a year ago

#17

Bit ironic after Zuckerbergs recent admission…..

And the 💩 the CIA pulls in foreign elections (which over time have been studied and put into domestic practice).

MACS
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a year ago

#18

When a lifelong Democrat, from an iconic democrat family, who tried to run as a democrat... endorses Trump and warns you not to vote for the democrats...

You should probably listen to him.

drglnc
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a year ago

#19

When a lifelong Democrat, from an iconic democrat family, who tried to run as a democrat... endorses Trump and warns you not to vote for the democrats after approaching the Democratic candidate for a cabinet position in exchange for an endorsement and is told to pound sand ...

You should probably NOT listen to him.

MACS wrote:

fixed it for ya

ZRX1200
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a year ago

#20

I heard the phone call, it was perfect. The most perfect phone call.

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