New indictment lays out same charges as before but focuses on former president’s role as a candidate seeking re-election
US special counsel Jack Smith and former US president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. Photograph: Mandel Nganjeff Kowalsky/AFP via Gettywas hit by a new federal indictment on Tuesday in his bid to overturn his 2020 election defeat, with prosecutors narrowing their approach after a US supreme court ruling that former presidents have broad immunity form criminal prosecution.
The revised indictment no longer includes allegations that Trump sought to pressure the US justice department in his bid to overturn his election defeat, an apparent effort to keep the prosecution alive after the high court found that Trump could not be prosecuted for that conduct.
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