Third Trump Indictment Criminalizes Free Speech, Ignores The Law In Attempt To Stop Trump

On Tuesday, Special Counsel Jack Smith announced a Washington, D.C. grand jury indicted 45th President and leading 2024 presidential candidate Donald Trump on four counts relating to the events of January 6, 2021.

Trump’s third indictment includes four counts consisting of conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding, and conspiracy against rights.

“Despite having lost, the Defendant was determined to stay in power. So for more than two months following Election Day on November 3, 2020, the Defendant spread lies that there had been outcome-determinative fraud in the election that he actually won. These claims were false, and the Defendant knew they were false,” the indictment states.

Smith’s second indictment of Trump comes only a day after President Joe Biden was exposed by his son Hunter Biden’s business partner, Devon Archer, during testimony before the House Oversight Committee of an influence scheme operated by his son Hunter.

Legal experts are in agreement that Smith’s latest indictment of Trump is nothing more than a sham that ignores the law and criminalizes free speech.

“I’ve now read the new Indictment twice. It is criminalizing speech, thought, legal (right or wrong) positions, and disinformation. It also is shockingly manipulative of  statutes and theories which require enormous legal wrangling,” Executive Director of Right On Crime and former U.S. Attorney Brett L. Tolman tweeted.

“But in Jack Smith’s hands it is a vague enough statute to go after Trump for contesting the election or telling others he believed, as so many politicians do, that the election was rigged,” Tolman added.

Tolman concluded, “In the end, it feels like nothing more than a political move by those in power to keep power.”

In a post on his top-rated social media platform, Truth Social, Trump wrote hours before the indictment was released, “I hear that Deranged Jack Smith, in order to interfere with the Presidential Election of 2024, will be putting out yet another Fake Indictment of your favorite President, me, at 5:00 P.M.”

“Why didn’t they do this 2.5 years ago? Why did they wait so long? Because they wanted to put it right in the middle of my campaign. Prosecutorial Misconduct,” Trump wrote.

“Also, why are they putting out another Fake Indictment the day after the Crooked Joe Biden SCANDAL, one of the biggest in American history, broke out in the Halls of Congress???  A Nation In Decline,” Trump added.

Trump’s trial date concerning Special Counsel Jack Smith's first June indictment of Trump for supposedly "mishandling" classified documents was set for May 20, 2024 by Judge Aileen Cannon.

Trump pleaded not guilty to all 37 fraudulent counts brought by Smith in that indictment in June.

Luckily for Trump, he has the ultimate defense for this indictment as well! Trump turned Jack Smith’s frivolous federal indictment of him on its head when he cited the Presidential Records Act as a defense.

The Presidential Records Act is a 1978 law that allows presidents to decide what records to keep and take, regardless of what the National Archives and Records Administration thinks.

In March, Trump was indicted by far-left Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg over a $130,000 payment to adult film "star” Stormy Daniels made by his former lawyer and now-convicted liar, Michael Cohen. 

Trump pleaded not guilty to all of Bragg's 34 frivolous felony charges. 

In April, Bragg held a press conference and told reporters he doesn’t need to “specify” what crimes Trump actually committed because “the law does not so require.”

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