28 Aug 2024

New Donald Trump indictment drops some allegations in election subversion case

8:49 am on 28 August 2024
PALM BEACH, FLORIDA - AUGUST 08: Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks during a press conference at his Mar-a-Lago estate on August 08, 2024, in Palm Beach, Florida. Polls currently show a close race between Trump and Democratic presidential candidate, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris.   Joe Raedle/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by JOE RAEDLE / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

US prosecutors obtained a new indictment in the 2020 election subversion case against Donald Trump. Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images/AFP

US prosecutors obtained a new indictment in the 2020 election subversion case against Donald Trump on Tuesday, following a US Supreme Court ruling that former presidents have broad immunity from criminal prosecution.

The new indictment dropped allegations that Trump sought to pressure the US Justice Department in his bid to overturn his election defeat, an apparent effort to keep the prosecution alive after the high court found that Trump could not be prosecuted for that conduct.

- Reuters

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