Election fraud: Trump indictment published: Even Fox News is now talking about a "crime"

STERN Election fraud: Trump indictment published: Even Fox News is now talking about a "crime" Article by Malte Mansholt • 12 hours • 3 minutes reading time Donald Trump: The handling of the 2020 election was a "crime", now reports Fox News In a new indictment, special investigator Jack Smith reveals how Donald Trump wanted to save the lost election for himself. It contains serious allegations. It was a political shock: US presidents - and thus Donald Trump - are protected from prosecution for crimes committed in office, the US Constitutional Court ruled. At least as long as they were committed in the course of official business. Special investigator Jack Smith has now filed a lawsuit with which he wants to prove that Trump can still be convicted. It contains shocking details of Trump's handling of the election. Even Trump's own broadcaster Fox News is now talking about "crimes". At the heart of the complaint, which was published on Wednesday in partially blacked-out form, is a question: Did the former president commit the crimes in the course of his office? Smith is convinced: "The answer to that question is no." What is remarkable, however, is the extent of his collection of evidence: On more than 165 pages, Smith collects one piece of evidence of Trump's guilt after another. And comes to a clear conclusion: "After the defendant lost the 2020 election, he decided to commit crimes in order to remain in office. Together with his co-conspirators, he began an increasingly desperate series of plans to overturn the legitimate election results." Donald Trump: No protection for his vice president Smith reveals numerous details of Trump's election fraud campaign, which are actually well documented. Even his own team repeatedly confronted the president with the fact that there was no legal recourse against the result, no real evidence of election fraud in favor of Joe Biden. Trump insisted on continuing. He called on his Vice President Mike Pence to "bow to him" - and simply not to recognize the election. When he then refused, Trump, according to the prosecution, deliberately incited the mob that stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021 - also with the declared aim of lynching Pence. When Trump was informed that Pence had to be rescued by the Secret Service, he had little to say: "So what?" he is said to have said in front of witnesses. Even Fox News speaks of crimes In view of the serious allegations, even Trump's long-time home broadcaster "Fox News" suddenly chose unusually harsh words. "The president has decided to rely on crimes," explained moderator Neil Cavuto somewhat cryptically but clearly. The broadcaster had previously largely portrayed both Trump's election fraud allegations and his personal actions as legitimate. The Trump camp reacted accordingly harshly to the lawsuit. "ELECTION MANIPULATION" - Trump ranted in capital letters on his Truth Social network. The lawsuit is full of false allegations and is unconstitutional, Trump said. Publishing the lawsuit shortly after the vice presidential debate on Tuesday was "an obvious attempt by the Harris-Biden regime to suppress and weaponize American democracy 33 days before the election," the candidate raged. "I did not manipulate the 2020 election. They did," he added hours later, almost desperately. Open trial The new indictment had become necessary because the Constitutional Court had followed Donald Trump's argument in July that the US president should not be prosecuted for crimes committed in office. Smith's indictment, which was already well advanced, was set back significantly by this decision. The new indictment clearly expresses anger over the decision; it argues explicitly against the judges' decision in some parts and states, for example, that indicting Trump would not limit his ability to act as president - which was the main argument of the constitutional judges.