Election interference in 2020 | The prosecutor recommends stopping the prosecution of Donald Trump

(Washington) The special prosecutor who is investigating the case against Donald Trump for illegal attempts to reverse the results of the 2020 election, Jack Smith, recommended Monday that the prosecution be stopped on the grounds that he was now the president-elect.

Donald Trump’s campaign team immediately welcomed a “major victory for the rule of law”.

Jack Smith is thus complying with a policy adopted more than 50 years ago by the Department of Justice, consisting of not prosecuting a sitting president.

Although the case of a candidate being criminally prosecuted and then elected president is “unprecedented,” the department concluded in deliberations with the special prosecutor’s office that this policy “applies to this situation,” explains Jack Smith in his asks Judge Tanya Chutkan.

But he asked the judge to end the proceedings without prejudging the course of events, which leaves open the possibility that they could be relaunched at the end of Donald Trump’s mandate.

Jack Smith had already embarked on this path by obtaining from the judge, a few days after the vote of November 5 which resulted in the victory of the Republican presidential candidate, the cancellation of all the deadlines on the calendar of this affair.

He motivated his request by the need to give the prosecution “time to analyze this unprecedented situation and determine a course of action consistent with Department of Justice policy.”

Back in the White House, Donald Trump could either appoint a new attorney general who would fire Jack Smith or simply order his Justice Department to drop the charges against him.