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A report, which is expected to contain detailed information in both Donald Trump’s case of attempts to overturn the presidential election in 2020 and the document case, can be made public, a federal appeals court in Atlanta has decided on Friday night, writes the Reuters news agency.
The US Department of Justice is in charge of the report, which contains investigations and information collected by special prosecutor Jack Smith in connection with the cases. It was originally Jack Smith who had brought the two federal criminal cases against the future US President Donald Trump.
Both cases have been discontinued after Trump was elected president of the United States in the November 5 election. Trump is sworn in as president on January 20.
The motion to pause the proceedings was made at the request of Smith himself. He justified the request by the fact that Trump had been elected as the next president of the United States. It is customary that a president cannot be prosecuted by the Department of Justice.
Trump calls cases ‘witch hunts’
The charge in the 2020 election case is that Trump tried to prevent the winner of the election, Joe Biden, from becoming president. It culminated in Congress being stormed on 6 January 2021.
The allegation of trying to overturn the election results was the most serious of the charges leveled against the 78-year-old president-elect.
The so-called document case is about Trump taking classified documents home from the White House to his residence, Mar-a-Lago in Florida. Documents about, among other things, the United States’ nuclear defense were stored in places where unauthorized persons could have gained access to them.
Trump has pleaded not guilty to all charges against him. He has said he is covered by immunity for his actions while he was president. Trump received a handout earlier this year from the US Supreme Court, which ruled that presidents have widespread immunity from prosecution for actions taken while in office.
In May, a court in New York found Donald Trump guilty of 34 counts of falsifying documents and violating accounting laws in connection with the payment of so-called hush-hush money to porn actor Stormy Daniels. Trump has tried to postpone the sentencing, but the US Supreme Court rejected that on Friday night Danish time. A verdict in the case is scheduled to be handed down on Friday morning US time.
Trump has called all the accusations against him ‘witch hunts’ and has said he will fire Jack Smith within two seconds if he is still in the position when Trump takes office. Smith has said he intends to resign before Trump takes office.
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Source: politiken.dk
