Just hours after Donald Trump’s election victory, the first signs are coming that he can emerge unscathed from the legal processes that threaten him. According to information to several American media, prosecutor Jack Smith has already begun work on dropping the charges against Trump.
The charges concern Trump’s role in storming the Capitol in 2021 and his handling of secret documents at his residence in Florida.
“Will be able to struggle out”
The decision is based on the longstanding policy that a sitting president cannot face criminal charges while in office, sources said.
If Trump now escapes prosecution, it is in line with what lawyer Fredrik Bergman Evans said to TV4 Nyheterna earlier on Wednesday.
– I think he will be able to get out of these charges. Two of them he will be able to shut down because they are under the federal Department of Justice, which he will control in his role as president. The other charges are at the state level, so he does not have control there, but I don’t think there is any court that will dare to judge a sitting president, says Bergman Evans to TV4 Nyheterna.
“Politics plays a role in the law”
Fredrik Bergman Evans also believes that Trump can escape the judgment that threatens him.
It was in May last spring that Trump was convicted on 34 counts of accounting crimes in New York.
The case involved Trump, before the 2016 election, paying people not to release sensitive information about him and then falsely recording the transactions as legal records, violating campaign and tax rules.
The sentence has not had time to gain legal force and after the night’s election victory, he will very likely avoid consequences.
– It is a matter of political strength. Although the courts must judge according to the law, politics plays a role in the law. There are no clear dividing lines between law and politics in the US, says Bergman Evans.
The charges against Donald Trump
Donald Trump is still awaiting sentencing after being convicted on all 34 counts of accounting violations in connection with the payment of so-called “guzzling money” before the 2016 election.
In addition to that, he is charged with four counts of attempting to have the 2020 election results annulled.
He is also accused in a Georgia state case of trying to influence the outcome of the 2020 election after the fact.
Furthermore, he is charged with having taken large amounts of classified material home to his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida after completing his term in office in 2021.