(27 Aug 2024)
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1. Former President Donald Trump exits court room
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ARCHIVE: Washington – 1 August 2023
2. Special Counsel Jack Smith approaches press conference podium
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Washington – 27 August 2024
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Eric Tucker, The Associated Press:
“Former President Donald Trump is charged in a new indictment by special Counsel Jack Smith related to his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. This new indictment still keeps intact the same original four charges. However, it narrows the allegations against him. And that’s because the Supreme Court, in a opinion last month, conferred broad immunity on former presidents. And it said that one element of the indictment in particular, namely Donald Trump’s interactions with the Justice Department, and his efforts to involve the department in trying to overturn his election loss, the Supreme Court said all of that is conduct for which Trump is entitled to absolute immunity, because that is conduct that constitutes an official act. And so, what the special counsel’s office has done is get a new grand jury to issue a new indictment that removes from the original charging document all of the allegations that relate to the Justice Department.”
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Washington – 27 August 2024
4. STILL of the superseding indictment against former President Donald Trump
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Washington – 27 August 2024
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Eric Tucker, The Associated Press:
“So this doesn’t really change anything vis-a-vis the timing, but it represents the government’s first effort to conform and comply with the Supreme Court’s opinion."
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ARCHIVE: Washington – 22 May 2024
6. Exterior of the US Supreme Court
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ARCHIVE: Washington – 7 October 2022
7. Supreme Court justices pose for photo
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Washington – 27 August 2024
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Eric Tucker, The Associated Press:
“But we are still looking at an impossible scenario of a trial taking place in 2024. That’s really off the table, given the work that’s still ahead, to narrow the indictment still even further and determine what is an official act and what is not an official act.”
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ARCHIVE: Washington – 7 October 2022
9. Supreme Court justices pose for photo
STORYLINE:
Special counsel Jack Smith has filed a new indictment against Donald Trump that keeps the same criminal charges but narrows the allegations against him following a Supreme Court opinion conferring broad immunity on former presidents.
Associated Press reporter Eric Tucker says the new indictment removes a section of the indictment that dealt with Trump’s interactions with the Justice Department, an area for which the Supreme Court in a 6-3 opinion said Trump was entitled to immunity from prosecution.
“The Supreme Court said all of that is conduct for which Trump is entitled to absolute immunity, because that is conduct that constitutes an official act. And so what the special counsel’s office has done is get a new grand jury to issue a new indictment that removes from the original charging document all of the allegations that relate to the Justice Department,” Tucker said.
But the new indictment does not mean that a trial in this case is expected to happen this year.
“We are still looking at an impossible scenario of a trial taking place in 2024. That’s really off the table, given the work that’s still ahead, to narrow the indictment still even further and determine what is an official act and what is not an official act,” Tucker said.
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