Grand jury indicts Trump again for J6: If he loses 'he’s going to jail,' expert predicts

A Washington, D.C. grand jury has handed up a superseding indictment against Donald Trump in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s prosecution of the ex-president for election subversion. The indictment, legal experts say, is in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling granting presidents broad immunity for official acts, and appears to remove any narratives or evidence that might be construed as falling under that grant.

MSNBC’s Adam Klasfeld, a veteran legal journalist, reports that “Jack Smith’s team says that the superseding indictment was ‘presented to a new grand jury that had not previously heard evidence in this case,’ [and] which separately charged Trump with the same crimes.”

Politico’s Kyle Cheney reports the superseding indictment retains “the same four core charges against him for trying to subvert the election.”

Effectively, even without the evidence the Supreme Court might have said falls under its new presidential immunity definition, a new grand jury reached the same conclusion as the original one did on which charges to approve.

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According to the 36-page document, those charges still are: Conspiracy to defraud the United States, Conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, Obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding, and Conspiracy against rights.

Former federal prosecutor of thirty years, Glenn Kirschner, points to the length of the document and writes: “Here’s why today’s NEW TRUMP INDICTMENT is good news. The first indictment against Trump was 45-pages long. This new one is 36-pages long BUT it includes the same 4 felony charges. Jack Smith took some info out to conform to the Supreme Court decision BUT all 4 crimes survive!”

Calling Smith’s move “Brilliant!” Kirschner adds: “the statement issued by Jack Smith’s office saying a NEW grand jury issue[d] this indictment removes any argument that the prior indictment was tainted because the first grand jury was presented with evidence that violates the Supreme Court absolute immunity ruling.”

Attorney Luppe B. Luppen explains the importance of Special Counsel Smith having a new and different grand jury indict Trump:

“The news is an entirely new grand jury decided to re-indict Trump on the same election subversion counts without seeing the evidence that the Supreme Court barred from consideration—i.e. the DOJ corruption stuff and any other conspiring with federal officials.”

CNN legal analyst, Norm Eisen, a former U.S. Ambassador and current Brookings senior fellow sums it up: “If Trump loses, he’s going to jail.”

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