Jack Smith files to drop Jan. 6 charges against Donald Trump

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Jack Smith files to drop Jan. 6 charges against Donald Trump

Special Counsel Jack Smith makes a statement to reporters about the 37 federal charges returned by a grand jury in an indictment of former U.S. President Donald Trump on charges of unauthorized retention of classified documents and *********** to obstruct justice as Smith speaks at his offices in Washington, U.S. June 9, 2023. 

Leah Millis | Reuters

WASHINGTON — Special counsel Jack Smith has filed a motion to drop all four felony charges against President-elect Donald Trump in connection with his effort to overturn his 2020 presidential election in the lead-up to the deadly Jan. 6 ******* on the U.S Capitol.

Trump was first 

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: *********** to defraud the ******* States, *********** to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding and *********** against rights. The case was then put on hold for months as Trump’s team 

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 that Trump could not be prosecuted.

The indictment marked an extraordinary moment in ********* history — the first-ever accusation that a president sought illegally to cling to power.

The dismissal also marks a historic moment. Fifty years after Richard Nixon was forced by lawmakers from both parties to resign the presidency amid allegations of ********* conduct, half of ********* voters will return Trump to the presidency despite his own serious charges of ********* misconduct in office.

The Supreme Court handed Trump an early victory in the case in July with its ruling 

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. But a 

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 again in August, alleging that Trump’s false claims about mass voter ****** during the 2020 election were “unsupported, objectively unreasonable, and ever-changing” and that Trump “knew that they were false.” Publicly, Trump has never conceded that his election claims were, in fact, false, and he pleaded not guilty in the case.

Many Jan. 6 defendants have told judges they lament that they were “

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” enough to fall for Trump’s falsehoods, which were echoed by the president-elect’s allies, Republicans in Congress and ************* influencers on social media.

The Justice Department is focused on arresting the “

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” rioters before Trump returns to office. The president-elect has said he will 

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 some undetermined portion of Jan. 6 rioters, whom he’s called “

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,” political prisoners and “

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He is expected to walk through the lower west tunnel, where some of the worst ********* of Jan. 6 took place, to be sworn in as president on Jan. 20, 2025.

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