Former President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the Justice Department was engaging in “election interference” after special counsel Jack Smith filed a superseding indictment against the former president.
Smith’s indictment, which comes after the Supreme Court ruled that presidents have broad immunity from prosecution, accuses Trump of two felony counts of obstructing an official proceeding, one felony count of conspiracy to defraud the United States, and one felony count of conspiracy against rights.
In a post on X, Trump said that the revised indictment amounted to “election interference” because mail-in ballots are about to be cast in North Carolina.
“It is DOJ policy that the Department of Justice should not take any action that will influence an election within 60 days of that election – but they just have taken such action,” he said. “Voting starts on September 6th, therefore the DOJ has violated its own policy – Election Interference. All of these…