The special prosecutor who has drawn up the case file against him Donald Trump for his attempt to illegally overturn the results of the 2020 election on USA argued that the Republican acted as a candidate and therefore cannot be considered to enjoy presidential criminal immunity, in a document released Wednesday, a month and a half before the Nov. 5 election.

In the voluminous written argument – 165 pages – which he submitted, much of it censored to protect the anonymity of witnesses, last week to Judge Tanya Chatkan, the prosecutor Jack Smith means to show that the acts for which the Republican former president was of a private nature.

According to the special counsel, these acts therefore do not fall under the broad criminal immunity granted by the federal Supreme Court to the current US president in an unprecedented decision on July 1.

The document contains previously undisclosed elements of the dossier, including part of a deposition by a senior White House official at the time, which refers to an unexpected conversation between Donald Trump, his wife, his daughter and his son-in-law during the presidency. helicopter.

“It doesn’t matter if you won or lost the election, you have to keep fighting,” Donald Trump told them, according to the deposition, which prosecutors plan to introduce at a future trial.

After his defeat in the 2020 presidential election, won by his Democratic opponent Joe Biden, with “the help of private associates, the defendant engaged in a series of increasingly desperate schemes to overturn the legal results in seven states where he lost” by narrow margins , Jack Smith pointed out.

These efforts culminated in the attack on the Capitol, the temple of American democracy, by hundreds of angry supporters of Donald Trump on January 6, 2021, he recalled.

“At its core, engineering was private in nature. He mainly used private actors and structures of his campaign to try to overturn the results of the election, he acted privately, as a candidate,” the special prosecutor insisted.

The former president and Republican presidential candidate responded to the disclosure with a series of furious posts on his personal Truth Social social networking site, denouncing the “full of lies” text, accusing the outgoing Democratic administration of “meddling in the election” and , once again, how he instrumentalizes justice.

By a majority of six votes to three – conservatives and progressives respectively – the Supreme Court ruled that the president has “no immunity for his non-official actions”, but enjoys “at least the right to the presumption of innocence for his official actions”.

The target of various criminal charges, Donald Trump is making every effort to have the cases go to trial as late as possible and, in any case, after the November 5th election.

If re-elected president, he will be able, after taking office in January 2025, to order the federal prosecution against him to be dropped.