Donald Trump’s January 6 charges ‘to be dropped’ as prosecutor files motion to dismiss case against President-elect
When the Department of Justice submitted a motion to dismiss the case, Donald Trump’s criminal charges from January 6 are expected to be dropped.
In 2023, Trump was initially charged with four felonies and charged with planning a “criminal scheme” to rescind the 2020 presidential election results.
However, invoking a long-standing Justice Department policy that protects presidents from prosecution while in office, special counsel Jack Smith requested a federal judge Thursday to dismiss the case.
Smith s office issued the following statement: “After careful consideration, the Department has determined that OLC s prior opinions concerning the Constitution s prohibition on federal indictment and prosecution of a sitting President apply to this situation and that as a result this prosecution must be dismissed before the defendant is inaugurated.”
The Justice Department’s historic attempt to hold Trump responsible for what prosecutors described as a criminal plot to hold onto power in the lead-up to his supporters’ attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, has come to an end.
Following Trump’s victory over Vice President Kamala Harris, Smith’s team started evaluating how to close the 2020 election interference investigation and the separate classified materials case, so the decision was anticipated.
Trump entered not guilty pleas to all four counts and has portrayed both prosecutions as politically motivated.
Additionally, he had promised to terminate Smith as soon as he started working there in January.
The Trump campaign released a statement shortly after the announcement, saying, “Today’s decision by the DOJ ends the unconstitutional federal cases against President Trump, and is a major victory for the rule of law.”
Shortly after the first DOJ announcement in Washington, DC, Smith also requested that a judge dismiss the Florida case against Trump in the secret documents matter.
After leaving office in January 2021, Trump stole confidential defense papers from the White House, which led to his indictment by a federal grand jury in Miami in June 2023.
Trump allegedly resisted the government’s attempts to retrieve the records, according to the prosecution.
On July 15, however, a US district judge dismissed the complaint, finding that Special Council Jack Smith’s appointment was unconstitutional.
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