Posted on 11/26/2024 6:04:07 AM PST by thegagline
A judge Monday dismissed the charges against Donald Trump related to the Jan. 6 riots after Special Counsel Jack Smith threw in the towel — with the president-elect bashing the case as solely “political hijacking.”
Presiding US District Judge Tanya Chutkan of Washington, DC, granted Smith’s motion filed earlier Monday seeking to dismiss the charges based on Trump’s victory in the 2024 presidential election and the precedent against indicting a sitting US president.
Smith’s team also separately moved Monday to end its appeal of a Florida judge’s decision nixing Smith’s classified document case against Trump — once considered one of the strongest in a slew of legal indictments against the Republican.
“These cases, like all of the other cases I have been forced to go through, are empty and lawless, and should never have been brought,” Trump vented on Truth Social on Monday afternoon. “Over $100 Million Dollars of Taxpayer Dollars has been wasted in the Democrat Party’s fight against their Political Opponent, ME. Nothing like this has ever happened in our Country before.”
Trump added that he had “persevered, against all odds, and WON” against the “political hijacking,” which he decried as a “low point in the History of our Country.”
Chutkan noted in her swift decision that “when a prosecutor moves to dismiss an indictment without prejudice, ‘there is a strong presumption in favor’ of that course.”
Smith’s team, in moving to dismiss the charges it brought against Trump for alleged 2020 election subversion efforts Jan. 6, 2020, wrote in court papers Monday, “It has long been the position of the Department of Justice that the United States Constitution forbids the federal indictment and subsequent criminal prosecution of a sitting President.
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Without prejudice, meaning it can resurface in the future?
The prosecution in these cases committed numerous acts of perjury to get the cases moving against Trump. These should be thoroughly investigated and prosecuted to the fullest extent.
Yes, assuming the statute of limitations hasn’t run.
Yes, if limitations hasn’t run.
Lets start yesterday.
The prez wandered off into the Brazilian jungle and the VP is MIA. Last week, Biden was toddling and stumbling across the beach and neither Jill or his Secret Service offered a steadying hand. It was obvious they were hoping for a faceplant or worse. Still, it is the same deep state running things... into the ground and poking the bear.
They don’t need no stinkin’ limitations. They don’t need no evidence. They do what they please, when they please.
Because that protected him from them in NY.
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You're right - - democrats were going full blown totalitarian. We dodged that bullet - thank God.
He is 100% correct. Far left democRATS were running around screamning and yelling like a bunch of mini-Nazis.
By the time Trump’s team is finished with them it will be done.
never forget the reason for the left’s treason, a peaceful protest to protect election integrity... https://rumble.com/v181401-january-6th-rally-2021.html
Were these cases dismissed with prejudice?
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Yes, assuming the statute of limitations hasn’t run.
I would have loved it if the judge refuses the dismissal.
No. That just gives President Trump the motive to issue himself a pardon on his way out in 2028. I'm guessing the Brandon legal team is drafting a pardon right now, so President Trump will have a model pardon and also a precedent. By 2028, Brandon's self-pardon will likely be court-tested. The Democrats' howls of protest against Trump's pardon will look totally hypocritical, not that ever stopped them.
The last phrase of my previous post should have read: "not that the appearance of hypocrisy ever stopped them."
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