Former US President and Republican Party candidate, Donald Trump (2017-2021) on Tuesday called new charges brought against him in Washington over the storming of the Capitol ridiculous and said they should be dismissed.

Trump wrote on his social network Truth Social that the special prosecutor leading the investigation, “insane” Jack Smith, brought this “ridiculous” charge against him “for trying to Resurrect the “Dead” Witch Hunt in Washington, D.C.in an act of desperation and to save face.”

Smith reviews indictment against New York tycoon maintaining the four previous positions but reduced the charges to comply with the Supreme Court’s ruling that Trump’s official acts as president are immune.

“This is simply an attempt to INTERFERE WITH THE ELECTION and distract the American people from the disasters Kamala Harris has caused our country, such as border incursions, immigrant crime, runaway inflationthe threat of World War III and much more…” Trump emphasized in Truth Social.

The former president called the step taken after the Supreme Court’s decision “surprising” and He considered it an “unprecedented abuse of the criminal justice system.”

Trump recalled that the case is related to “conspiracy to interfere with the 2020 presidential election”what led to the storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2021.

That day, about 10,000 people, most of them Trump supporters, marched to Congress headquarters and about 800 people stormed the building as Democrat Joe Biden’s election victory was confirmed. Five people were killed and about 140 officers were injured.

«They (the Democrats) are the ones who obstructed the elections.“Not me. They deceived me and they are persecuting me. It is curious that this is happening at the same time that Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg admitted to hiding huge amounts of information (…), which is a direct admission that the 2020 election is being MANIPULATED by the Justice Department. What they are doing is the greatest sabotage of democracy in our history,” he said.

The Republican candidate, who is trailing his Democratic opponent in polls on voting intentions, believes the system is being rigged against him and accused Harris of being at the forefront of this movement.

“As Jack Smith knows, the entire case should be dismissed on the grounds of presidential immunity. as the US Supreme Court has already ruled unequivocally“Smith rewrote the same case in an attempt to circumvent the Supreme Court’s decision,” he reported in Truth Social.

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In his opinion, Americans are aware of all the “corruption charges” brought against them and they will show their rejection of them by giving him a “crushing victory” on November 5.

“I want you to know that I WILL NEVER GIVE UP!” he stressed in another email sent by his campaign.

On July 1, the Supreme Court granted the now former president partial immunityBy a vote of six to three, the progressive justices concluded that “a former president is entitled to absolute immunity from prosecution for actions within his constitutional authority,” but found that “there is no immunity for unofficial actions.”

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Smith’s indictment has been cut from its original 45 pages to 36 and, according to the newspaper, Washington Post, Rejection of accusations related to Trump efforts to get the Justice Department to back up his claim that there was election fraud in 2020.

In its July ruling, the Supreme Court noted that Trump cannot be charged regarding his contacts with members of the Ministry of Justice, given that his interactions with that cabinet were part of the duties of his office. (EFE)