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I mean the one thing that I did see, which I felt was just classic lipstick on a pig, is, you know of course, the reason the Supreme Court threw out his lawsuit is because they said it implicated the president's official acts, of course, which the president has immunity in conducting those official acts,
Vance said in Nashville, Tennessee [Jack Smith] should be ashamed of himself and it's one of the reasons we have to win—because he should not be anywhere near power."
I thought the way they actually divided that conduct and tried to protect the president's official duties—that seems sensible to me."
He praised the differentiation made between presidential acts and personal in the ruling, adding There are a lot of questions that have been lingering out there for her to answer as we go into this fall campaign,
said David Chalian, CNN’s political director In 2021, senior officials from the Biden administration, including the White House, repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain Covid-19 content, including humour and satire, and expressed a lot of frustration with our teams when we didn’t agree,
he said in a letter to Jim Jordan, the Republican head of the House judiciary committee On January 2, four days before Congress's certification proceeding, the Defendant and others called Georgia's Secretary of State. During the call, the Defendant lied to the Georgia Secretary of State."
The previous federal indictment reads You've heard me say it a thousand times—it's important to underscore that Donald was acting as a candidate for president, and not in the scope of his duties as president. That means no presidential immunity would apply, so Jack Smith is making that clear here."
Gill adds a note to this change In a saner age, ... ...after the failed assassination attempt on Trump, an ordinary prosecutor thinking about the national interest might say to him or herself: Let me drop this hyper-political case and help the Nation heal."
The illegally appointed 'Special Counsel' Deranged Jack Smith has brought a ridiculous new indictment against me, which has all the problems of the old indictment and should be dismissed IMMEDIATELY,
he posted on his Truth Social platform I was concerned about a system that appeared to provide immunity for one individual under one set of circumstances when we have a criminal justice system that ordinarily treats everyone the same,
This is merely an attempt to interfere with the election, and distract the American people from the catastrophes Kamala Harris has inflicted on our nation, like the Border Invasion, Migrant Crime, Rampant Inflation, the threat of World War III, and more.
A superseding indictment was filed in the DC election interference case today. It streamlines the charges and supporting evidence in the original indictment, in keeping with the SCOTUS (Supreme Court of the United States) ruling re: executive immunity."
Sharing a post on his X, Smith said It circumvents the need for an evidentiary hearing (the "mini trial") to determine what charges apply. The DOJ has stated its position in this indictment. The majority of the charges levied against Donald Trump fall outside the scope of immunity."
The defendant had no official responsibilities related to the certification proceeding, but he did have a personal interest as a candidate in being named the winner of the election,
the revised indictment states, language that did not appear in the original charging document It's still a strong case, because frankly much of what Trump is accused of doing here was done in his personal capacity as a candidate
in the 2020 election he lost to President Joe Biden, Bachner said Grand jury proceedings are secret by law, but it's not unusual in a case of this high profile for somebody to leak it,
he said, noting that witnesses It certainly was the only move he had, ... given that the previous indictment
Bachner, of Bachner & Associates in Manhattan, said of Smith What they are doing now is the single greatest sabotage of our Democracy in History.”
The first indictment was never going to pass Constitutional muster,
So if Smith wants to proceed against Trump his only choice was to have a new indictment voted that eliminated the issues raised by the Supreme Court on immunity,