President Donald Trump will remain immune from election fraud charges even after he leaves office in 2029
Washington: According to a former federal prosecutor, Donald Trump, the president-elect, will not be held accountable for his election fraud until after he leaves office in 2029.
By the time Trump left office, the statute of limitations would have passed, and prosecutors would not be able to bring the case back, Neama Rahmani told a media report.
Trump was charged on four counts in Washington, D.C., for allegedly conspiring to rescind the 2020 election results prior to the riot at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. In addition to entering a not guilty plea, the president-elect has claimed that the investigation is a political witch hunt.
All federal prosecutions of Trump are now ended, according to Rahmani, who is now the head of the California legal firm West Coast Trial Lawyers.
“The statute of limitations will have passed by the time the electoral fraud case is dropped, so it cannot be refiled after Trump leaves office. Most federal offenses have a five-year statute of limitations. “The prosecutions are over now that Trump has won,” he said.
Stephen Gillers, a legal professor at New York University, said that Trump may now persuade his acting attorney general to dismiss special prosecutor Jack Smith since the case against him is now over.
“Trump most likely can’t do it himself since he didn’t choose Smith. The Saturday night slaughter resulted from former President Richard Nixon’s desire for someone else to dismiss Archibald Cox. Since it will take some time to confirm an attorney general, it will be the acting attorney general,” Gillers told a media report.
Cox, a former law student, was named special Watergate prosecutor by Attorney General Elliott Richardson in May 1973.
According to the Department of Justice website, “Special Prosecutor Cox subpoenaed audio tapes from his employer when the Senate investigation revealed their existence, which were ordered by President Nixon.”
“The president volunteered to provide written summaries of the contents of the recordings to the Senate and Cox after two appeals of the subpoenas were denied. Cox declined the offer. Nixon then gave Richardson the order to dismiss him. However, both the attorney general and Assistant Attorney General William Ruckelshaus declined.
Nixon resorted to Robert Bork, the solicitor general at the time, who did execute the directive. The incident was dubbed the “Saturday Night Massacre.”
On October 26, Trump told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt that he would terminate Smith “within two seconds” of assuming office if elected president.
Smith was named an independent special counsel by Attorney General Merrick Garland to supervise Trump’s federal litigation.
Garland tried to steer clear of a conflict of interest since it doesn’t seem like the Biden administration is pursuing Trump if the Justice Department isn’t prosecuting him directly.
