US prosecutors file revised indictment against Trump in election subversion case

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27 August 2024 at 4:57 pm·1-min read

Federal prosecutors narrowed the allegations against former US president Donald Trump in a revised indictment filed Tuesday over the Republican candidate's efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. The indictment was revised following the US Supreme Court's ruling in July that former presidents enjoyed a broad immunity from criminal prosecution.

Prosecutors on Tuesday filed a revised indictment of Donald Trump, pressing ahead with bombshell charges that he tried to overturn the 2020 US election after losing to Joe Biden.

The superseding indictment retains the same four charges against Trump as in an earlier version but takes into account a recent Supreme Court ruling that a former president has broad immunity from criminal prosecution.

The new indictment of the 78-year-old Republican White House candidate is 36 pages long, down from 45 pages previously, and removes material affected by the immunity ruling from the conservative-dominated top court.

It retains the same core, stating that Trump lost in 2020 but "was determined to remain in power" and attempted to subvert the results.

The Supreme Court ruled in July that an ex-president has broad immunity from prosecution for official acts conducted while in office, but can be pursued for unofficial acts.

This threw into doubt the historic prosecution of the ex-president.

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