WASHINGTON: Donald Trump's US presidential election victory on Wednesday (Nov 6) will essentially end the criminal cases brought against him, at least for the four years he occupied the White House.
Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump takes the stage following early results from the 2024 U.S. presidential election in Palm Beach County Convention Center, in West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., November 6, 2024. REUTERS/Callaghan O'HareWASHINGTON: Donald Trump 's US presidential election victory on Wednesday will essentially end the criminal cases brought against him, at least for the four years he occupied the White House.
Trump told an interviewer on Oct 24 that he would fire Smith - who led the federal prosecutions over his attempts to overturn his election defeat and retention of classified documents after leaving office -"within two seconds" of being sworn in.
One more court date is scheduled before he is due to be sworn in on Jan 20, though legal experts said that was unlikely to go forward. Trump faces four charges in federal court in Washington accusing him of spreading false claims of election fraud to try to block the collection and certification of votes following the 2020 election, which Trump lost to Democrat Joe Biden.
“My instinct is they would rather sit in status quo or largely status quo, rather than affirmatively pull the plug," he said.- developed to fight organised crime - to charge Trump in an alleged conspiracy to reverse his defeat in the battleground state in the 2020 election.
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