The former American president, targeted by several criminal proceedings, declared that he wanted to “fire” the special prosecutor who was prosecuting him if he returned to the White House.
Donald Trump expressed this Thursday, October 24, his intention, if elected, to “fire” special prosecutor Jack Smith, who is prosecuting him for attempts to illegally reverse the results of the previous American presidential election in 2020.
The former president and Republican candidate responded during an interview on a conservative podcast to the question of whether, in the event of victory in the November 5 vote, he would pardon himself or have the special prosecutor fired.
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“I would fire him in two seconds,” he continued, describing Jack Smith, one of the favored targets of his attacks for more than a year, as “a very dishonest man”.
The special prosecutor published a revised indictment against Donald Trump on August 27 following the Supreme Court's decision on July 1 granting the President of the United States a broad presumption of criminal immunity.
A month later, Jack Smith developed in a voluminous written document, largely redacted to preserve the anonymity of witnesses, his arguments to demonstrate the private nature of the acts for which the ex-president is being prosecuted.
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According to him, these acts performed as a candidate for re-election in 2020 are not covered by the president's criminal immunity for his “official acts”.
Following his defeat by Democratic candidate Joe Biden, “with the help of private accomplices, the defendant embarked on a series of increasingly desperate plans to overturn the legitimate results in seven states he had lost” narrowly, wrote Jack Smith.
“The core of the scheme was private in nature. He extensively used private actors and his campaign structures to attempt to overturn the results of the election and acted in his private capacity as a candidate,” he concluded. .
Targeted by several criminal proceedings, Donald Trump is doing everything possible to go to trial as late as possible, at least after the vote. If he were elected again, once inaugurated in January 2025, he could order a halt to federal proceedings against him.
This Wednesday, October 23, the Guardian reveals that Donald Trump is accused of having sexually assaulted a model he met through Jeffrey Epstein during the 1990s. Less than two weeks before the election, on November 5, the Republican candidate is neck and neck with Kamala Harris in the polls.
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