Special prosecutor Jack Smith in charge of the federal case against Donald Trump for instigating the assault on the Capitol and attempting to obstruct the certification of the election results of the 2020 election has asked to dismiss the charges against the Republican. After Trump’s victory on November 5, Smith had already begun working on how to end the two federal cases he has open against the now president-elect. The special counsel had only two months before Trump was inaugurated and could no longer be tried.
Smith thus shelves a case that did not even have a trial date due to the constant work of the tycoon’s defense to postpone the case (like the other three) until after the elections. Smith’s decision is not a surrender to Trump, but rather an attempt to clear the way for prosecutors to file charges against him again when Trump ends his term and no longer enjoys presidential protection.
Although on the table there is still the possibility that Trump does something that has not been seen before in the American justice system: use the presidential power of pardon to pardon himself and thus nullify this possibility.
The decision to dismiss the cases from the Washington trial comes after last Friday the judge in the Stormy Daniels case announced that she was indefinitely postponing the ruling on Trump’s conviction. The New York trial was the only one of the four that was held and ended with a guilty verdict on Trump for the 34 serious crimes of which he was accused. Now it was pending to know what the sentence imposed would be, which could be up to four years in prison.
In the Washington case that Smith has dismissed, Trump was accused of four crimes: two related to hindering the certification of the result of the 2020 elections that took place in Congress on January 6, one of conspiracy to try to prevent the counting of votes from the elections and another for having attempted to deprive citizens of a right protected by federal law, specifically that of voting.
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