“I persevered, against all odds, and WON,” says Trump, as Special Counsel moves to abandon Election Interference & Classified Documents Cases
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Texas Insider Report) — In a momentous finale to an unprecedented chapter in U.S. political and Federal Law Enforcement history, President Donald Trump has today emerged indisputably victorious, as a Federal Judge announced mid-afternoon that Special Counsel Jack Smith’s motion to dismiss all felony charges against president-elect Donald Trump in relation to the January 6th election-interference case in Washington, D.C. would be granted.
In the same motion, federal prosecutors announced they would drop their classified-documents case against the former president in Florida.U.S. District Court judge Tanya Chutkan’s decision came within hours of the prosecutor’s request being filed, which formally ends the Joe Biden Justice Department’s case alleging that Donald Trump conspired to overturn his 2020 loss to President Joe Biden.
“I persevered, against all odds, and WON,” Trump exulted in a post on his social media website Truth Social, before adding that “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.”
Federal prosecutors had charged Trump in another case with illegally retaining classified documents after leaving the White House, and of storing the materials at his Mar-a-Lago resort.
Smith also filed a motion Monday to dismiss his appeal in Mr. Trump's “classified documents” case, which was dismissed this summer by Judge Aileen Cannon.
Smith asked for the D.C. case to be dismissed without prejudice, meaning Trump could still potentially be prosecuted for the same charges when he leaves office in four years.
Smith announced last week that he would be quitting his post at the Justice Department prior to Mr. Trump taking office, and had previously asked Judge Chutkan to cancel pending proceedings.
In July of this year – after the Biden Department of Justice began never-before- seen proceedings described by many court and political analysts “weaponization of the Federal Government” – the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that presidents are immune to criminal prosecution for official acts taken while in office.
Steven Cheung, Trump’s incoming White House communications director, said Americans “want an immediate end to the political weaponization of our justice system and we look forward to uniting our country.”
Mr. Trump had consistently plead not guilty to all charges against him, and has subsequently become President-Elect Trump.
Smith, who was appointed “Special Counsel” in November 2022, brought both sets of felony charges in 2023, and his subsequent efforts to quickly bring then-former President Trump to trial failed at multiple junctures.
The election case was delayed by an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court by Trump’s attorneys, who argued that presidents were immune from such charges, and the classified documents case was waylaid in July by a ruling from U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, who rejected the charges on grounds that Smith was unlawfully appointed.
