Special counsel drops all charges against Trump weeks before his return to White House
Justice Department ends two major criminal cases against former and future president Donald Trump. Decision comes after his win over Harris and follows long-standing policy about sitting presidents immunity
In a ground-breaking turn of events special counsel Jack Smith dropped both criminal cases against Donald Trump this monday: the election-interference and classified-documents charges
The Justice Department made this decision based on their long standing policy that prevents prosecution of sitting presidents (since Trump won november election against Kamala Harris). The departments filing states: “the Constitution requires case dismissal before defendantʼs inauguration in jan 2025“
Trump shared his thoughts on Truth Social platform: its a waste of taxpayer money reaching $100 million and politically-driven attack. He mentioned state-level cases too pointing at prosecutors like Fani Willis‚ Letitia James‚ and Alvin Bragg
These cases‚ like all of the other cases I have been forced to go through‚ are empty and lawless‚ and should never have been brought
The election-interference case which started about a year-ago focused on events leading to jan-6 capitol incident. US district judge Tanya Chutkan approved case dismissal right after receiving motion. The classified-documents case in florida got dropped through appeals court filing
Steven Cheung‚ trumps communications director said this marks “a major win for rule-of-law“ and called for end of justice systems political use
This outcome follows july supreme court ruling about ex-presidents immunity which slowed case progress. In oct smiths team tried showing new proof about Trump “resorting to crimes“ to change 2020 election results - but now both cases are officially closed
