'Should Be Immediately DISMISSED': Trump SLAMS Justice Department For Trying To 'Sabotage' Democracy After New Indictment

On Tuesday, 45th President Donald Trump slammed the Department of Justice for engaging in "election interference" after special counsel Jack Smith brought a superseding indictment in the 2020 election case following the Supreme Court's immunity decision in Trump v. United States.

"It is DOJ policy that the Department of Justice should not take any action that will influence an election within 60 days of that election – but they just have taken such action," he wrote, despite the fact that Smith brought his initial indictment long before the election. "Voting starts on September 6th, therefore the DOJ has violated its own policy – Election Interference. All of these Comrade Kamala/Biden Hoaxes should be immediately DISMISSED!"

President Trump took to Truth Social earlier in the day to condemn the indictment as a way for the DOJ to manipulate the election with less than three months left in the presidential race. “This is an unprecedented abuse of the Criminal Justice System. The case has to do with ‘Conspiracy to Obstruct the 2020 Presidential Election,’ when they are the ones that did the obstructing of the Election, not me,” the 45th president wrote. “They cheated on the Election, and they go after me for ‘cheating on the Election.’ Interestingly, this comes at the exact same time as Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook has admitted to concealing massive amounts of information, such as Hunter Biden’s Laptop from Hell, which is a direct acknowledgment that the 2020 Presidential Election was MANIPULATED and RIGGED by the DOJ. What they are doing now is the single greatest sabotage of our Democracy in History.”

Smith's superseding indictment in the 2020 election case is more refined than the previous indictment, outlining criminal acts more narrowly after the Supreme Court rules against the special counsel's previous indictment of the 45th president. The prosecution kept the four charges against Trump, which include conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of an attempt to obstruct an official proceeding, and conspiracy against rights. The new indictment also limited the type of evidence included and removed an unnamed individual from a list of unindicted co-conspirators.

“The superseding indictment, which was presented to a new grand jury that had not previously heard evidence in this case, reflects the Government’s efforts to respect and implement the Supreme Court’s holdings and remand instructions in Trump v. United States,” the special counsel's office explains in its brief.

The indictment was handed down by a federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, and the charges reopened the case against Trump after the Supreme Court's decision. As previously reported by the DC Enquirer, the court ruled in a 6-3 decision along ideological lines that 45th President Donald Trump is partially immune from special counsel Jack Smith's prosecution. Trump was granted immunity for "official acts" while not being granted immunity for "unofficial acts." The court's decision is the first time the Supreme Court has ever considered whether a president can be held criminally liable for actions taken while in office. Despite Smith's best efforts to try to get the case to trial before the November election, the 2020 election case will likely not see the inside of a courtroom until after November 5. 

Read the superseding indictment here.

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