District of Columbia Federal Judge Tanya Chutkan has closed this Monday the case against the president-elect of the United States, donald trumpfor electoral interference and the 2021 assault on the Capitol after it was requested the special prosecutor, Jack Smith.
The judge accepted the request presented by Smith, who argued that Trump won the elections on November 5 and that the regulations of the Department of Justice prevents prosecuting a president who is in office.
In a court document, Chutkan confirmed that the prosecution asked to dismiss the case and that Trump’s defense does not oppose this, so he decided to close the case.
The prosecutor dropped the two criminal charges today that he maintained against Trump in federal courts: that of the assault on the Capitol, settled in the District of Columbia, and that of the classified documents that the Republican took from the White House, a case from Florida.
Trump said during the campaign that on his first day as president he would fire Smith and order prosecutors to close cases against him that he maintains were motivated by political persecution.
“It was a political kidnapping and that something like that could have happened was a low point in the history of our country. However, I persevered and, against all odds, I WON,” the Republican declared this Monday upon learning of Smith’s decision.
Trump, who was already president between 2017 and 2021, was accused in the District of Columbia for his attempts to reverse the election results he lost in 2020 against Joe Biden and for allegedly instigating the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
That day, a mob of the Republican’s supporters broke into the Congress building to try, unsuccessfully, to stop the ratification of Biden’s electoral victory.
In Florida, Trump is accused of taking hundreds of classified documents without permission of his first term and having illegally detained them in his Mar-a-Lago mansion.
The prosecution had faced many difficulties in advancing both cases since the Supreme Court, with a conservative majority, ruled in July that the country’s former presidents enjoy broad immunity from prosecution.
Smith’s decision to throw in the towel means a new judicial victory for Trumpwho accumulated up to four charges for criminal offenses.
Last May, he made history by becoming the first former president convicted of a crime, after he was found guilty in a New York state trial for having falsified business records to buy the silence of former porn actress Stormy Daniels in the 2016 election campaign.
However, Judge Juan Merchan delayed the sentencing of the criminal trial on Fridaywhich was scheduled for November 26, and gave no indication of a possible new date.
A fourth criminal case weighs on Trumpin a Georgia state court, for electoral interference in the 2020 elections, but the case was affected by the romantic relationship that prosecutor Fani Willis had with a subordinate.