The special prosecutor Jack Smith This Friday he asked for a pause in the criminal trial for the assault on the Capitol against the Republican Donald Trump to evaluate the situation, after he won the presidential elections last Tuesday.
Your request to the magistrate Chutkan asked He notes that he needs the remaining deadlines to be rescinded to determine “the appropriate path” in line with Justice Department policies that prevent presidents from being investigated while they are in office.
Trump, who defeated the vice president and Democratic candidate on Tuesday, Kamala Harrisand will be inaugurated on January 20, is accused in the D.C. for his attempts to reverse the results of the election he lost in 2020 and for allegedly instigating the assault on the Capitol.
The request recalls that, as a result of these elections, the Republican’s victory is expected to be certified on January 6 and that he will be sworn in as president on the 20th of that month.
Smith highlighted that the prosecution has consulted with defense attorneys and noted that they have not opposed the pause.
According to The New York Times, Smith had already started discussions with members of the Department of Justice about how to move forward after the elections in the two federal cases against Trump: that of the assault on the Capitol and the accusation in Florida for having been taken from the White House. classified documents upon leaving power.
The Republican said during the election campaign that on his first day as president he would fire prosecutor Smith and order the Justice Department to close the cases against him that he maintains were motivated by political persecution.
This November 21, Trump’s lawyers were scheduled to present to the judge their documentation on why he should not be tried in Washington after the Supreme Court ruled that former presidents enjoy broad judicial immunity.
Smith indicated in his note that by December 2 he can present a report with the results of his deliberations.
The special prosecutor has not yet requested a pause in the process in Florida. That case was dismissed on July 15, but Smith petitioned an appeals court on August 26 to have it reinstated.
Trump faces four parallel criminal trials: those two federal ones and two others in local courts in New York and Georgia.
The only one where there is a conviction is the one in New York for falsification of business records to conceal a payment to the porn actress. Stormy Danielswith whom he allegedly had an affair in the past, to prevent it from harming his 2016 campaign.
The Trump team’s goal, as NBC News noted this week, is for all cases against him to be dismissed. In New York, the possibility of indefinitely postponing the hearing scheduled for the end of November is also contemplated.
According to the US Constitution, a president cannot be pardoned in a state impeachment, as is the case in New York, and in the case of Georgia, where he is accused of electoral interference, the governor could not pardon him either.
NBC News noted that the Justice Department appears to have assumed that neither the Washington nor Florida proceedings can take place in the near future and now that it has been re-elected it sees no room to continue them. EFE (I)
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