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A U.S. federal special prosecutor's team has called former President Donald Trump's attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election a private act that cannot be subject to criminal immunity.
It was against the Supreme Court's earlier recognition of the former president's broad immunity from public conduct while in office,
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The 165-page document submitted to the court by Special Counsel Jack Smith's team has been released.
It contains conversations between former President Donald Trump, the Republican presidential candidate of the United States, and then Vice President Mike Pence,
At a luncheon after the presidential election in November 2020, former Vice President Pence accepted the results of the presidential election and advised him to run again in 2024, but
Former President
Trump said, "I don't know," adding, "2024 is too far."
In January of the following year, former President Trump persuaded then-Vice President Pence, who also serves as Senate president, to refuse to certify the election results, saying that people would think it was stupid if Congress certified "Joe Biden's election."
The special prosecution team pointed out that former President Trump was in office when he tried to overturn the presidential election, but the scheme was fundamentally private.
He then pointed out that former President Trump relied on crime to remain in power even after losing the presidential election.
Earlier in July, the Supreme Court made a decision that broadly recognized immunity from public conduct while the former president was in office.
As a result, the special prosecution team, which indicted former President Trump on charges of attempting to overturn the presidential election and leaking confidential documents, is in a position to cancel the indictment on "public conduct" among the indictments.
Therefore, the independent counsel team seems to have refuted the judgment of Chief Justice John Roberts, who estimated that former President Trump could apply immunity to the charges of pressuring former Vice President Pence.
I'm Hong Joo Ye of YTN in the international department.
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