Donald Trump faces new U.S. indictment in election subversion case
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U.S. prosecutors obtained a new indictment in the 2020 election subversion case against Donald Trump on Tuesday.
Donald Trump faced a revised federal indictment on Tuesday accusing him of illegally trying to overturn his 2020 election loss, with prosecutors narrowing their approach after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that former presidents have broad immunity from criminal prosecution.
U.S. Special Counsel Jack Smith's team obtained the superseding indictment in the Washington case, though it was highly unlikely to proceed to trial ahead of the Nov. 5 election when the Republican Trump faces Democratic U.S. Vice-President Kamala Harris.
The revised indictment lays out the same four charges it brought against the Republican former president last year focusing on Trump's role as a political candidate seeking re-election, rather than as the president at the time.
The Supreme Court ruled on July 1 that Trump cannot be prosecuted for actions that were within his constitutional powers as president.
U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan in Washington has been expected to decide in coming weeks which aspects of the case must be tossed out based on the Supreme Court's immunity decision.
Attorneys for Trump did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Trump in a statement on his Truth Social media platform said the Supreme Court's immunity ruling should lead to the entire case being thrown out, saying, "Smith rewrote the exact same case in an effort to circumvent the Supreme Court Decision."
