“I would fire him in two seconds,” Donald Trump assumed, calling Jack Smith, one of the main targets of his attacks for more than a year, as “a very dishonest man.”
The former US president and current Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump, expressed this Thursday his intention, if elected, to “fire” the special prosecutor Jack Smith, who is suing him for trying to illegally reverse the results of the 2020 presidential elections.
Trump responded, in an interview with a conservative podcast, to the question of: If elected on November 5, he will pardon himself in this process or have the special prosecutor fired.
“They fired him in two seconds”he declared, describing Jack Smith, one of the main targets of his attacks for more than a year, as “a very dishonest man.”
On August 27, the special counsel released a revised indictment against Donald Trump, following the conservative-majority Supreme Court’s July 1 decision to grant the president of the United States a broad presumption of criminal immunity.
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A month later, in a voluminous written document, largely redacted to preserve the anonymity of the witnesses, Jack Smith presented his arguments to demonstrate the private nature of the acts for which the former president is being prosecuted.
According to the prosecutor, Such acts, carried out as a candidate for re-election as head of state in 2020, are not covered by the president’s criminal immunity for his “official acts.”.
Following his loss against Democratic nominee Joe Biden, “with the help of private accomplices, the defendant embarked on a series of increasingly desperate schemes to overturn the legitimate results in seven states he had narrowly lost,” wrote Jack Smith.
“The core of the plan was private in nature.. He mainly used private actors and their campaign structures to try to reverse the electoral results and acted in a private capacity, as a candidate.“, he concluded.
Donald Trump, the subject of several criminal proceedings, is resorting to all the maneuvers at his disposal to be tried as late as possible, in any case, after the November 5 elections.
If elected again, he may, after taking office in January 2025, order the suspension of the federal proceedings against him.
Source: Observadora
