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Federal Judge for the District of Columbia Tanya Chutkan dropped her case against US President-elect Donald Trump on Mondayfor election interference and the 2021 attack on the Capitol after special prosecutor Jack Smith asked to do so.

The judge accepted Smith’s request, which argued that Trump won the Nov. 5 election and that Justice Department rules prevents him from prosecuting the sitting president.

In a court filing, Chutkan confirmed that the prosecution had asked for the case to be dismissed and that Trump’s defense did not object to this, so decided to close the case.

Prosecutor Today he dropped two criminal charges he filed against Trump. in federal courts: the case of the attack on the Capitol, settled in the District of Columbia, and the case of secret documents that a Republican took from the White House, a case from Florida.

Trump said during the campaign that on his first day as president will fire Smith and order prosecutors to drop the cases against him which, in his opinion, were motivated by political persecution.

“It was a political kidnapping and that something like this could happen was a low point in the history of our country. However, I persevered and, despite everything, I won,” the Republican said this Monday after learning of Smith’s decision.

Trump, who was already president between 2017 and 2021, has been accused in D.C. of trying to overturn the results of the election he lost in 2020 to Joe Biden and of allegedly incited the storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2021.

That day, a mob of Republican supporters stormed the Congressional building to unsuccessfully attempt stop the ratification of Biden’s election victory.

In Florida, Trump is accused of taking hundreds of secret documents from his first term without permission and illegally detained them at his Mar-a-Lago mansion.

The prosecution has faced many difficulties in moving forward with both cases, since the Supreme Court’s conservative majority ruled in July that the country’s former presidents They enjoy broad immunity from prosecution.

Smith’s decision to surrender represents Trump’s new legal victorywho have accumulated up to four felony charges.

Last May he made history by becoming first former president convicted of a crime, after he was found guilty in a New York state lawsuit of falsifying business records to buy the silence of former porn star Stormy Daniels in the 2016 presidential campaign.

However, Judge Juan Merchan on Friday postponed sentencing in the criminal case, which was scheduled for November 26, and He gave no indication of a possible new date.

A fourth criminal case weighs on Trump in Georgia court. electoral interference in the 2020 electionsbut the case was influenced by the romantic relationship that prosecutor Fani Willis had with a subordinate.

(EFE)