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 2020 US presidential elections.
The former president and Republican candidate responded during an interview on a conservative podcast to the question of whether, if he won the November 5 elections, he would pardon himself or have the special prosecutor fired.
Trump could order an end to prosecutions if elected
“I’d fire him in two seconds,” he continued, describing Jack Smith, a favorite target of his attacks for more than a year, as “a very dishonest man.”
The special counsel released a revised indictment against Donald Trump on August 27 following the Supreme Court’s July 1 decision granting the US president a broad presumption of criminal immunity.
A month later, Jack Smith developed in a voluminous written document, largely redacted to preserve the anonymity of the witnesses, his arguments to demonstrate the private nature of the acts for which the former president is being prosecuted.
According to him, these acts carried out as a candidate for reelection in 2020 are not covered by the president’s criminal immunity for his “official acts.”
Following his loss to Democratic nominee Joe Biden, “with the help of private accomplices, the defendant embarked on a series of increasingly desperate schemes to overturn legitimate results in seven states he had narrowly lost,” wrote Jack Smith.
“The core of the plan was private in nature. He extensively used private actors and their campaign structures to try to overturn the results of the elections and acted in his capacity as a candidate,” he concluded.
Beset by several criminal proceedings, Donald Trump is doing everything he can to go to trial as late as possible, at least after the vote. If he were elected again, once he takes office 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 November 5 election, the Republican candidate is neck and neck with Kamala Harris in the polls.
Source: BFM TV
