Special prosecutor Jack Smith has filed a new indictment against former president and White House candidate Donald Trump.
The 36-page indictment, filed by special counsel Jack Smith, is an attempt to bring the charges against Trump into line with a United States Supreme Court ruling last month that ruled that presidents enjoy broad immunity from prosecution for the actions carried out within their mandate.
The new indictment has some counts dropped, but it contains the same four criminal charges that were in the old one, including conspiracy to defraud the United States.
It's a signal that Smith believes the Supreme Court's immunity ruling is not much of a roadblock to impeaching the former president.
Specifically, the indictment was amended to remove charges involving DOJ officials and other government officials.
Trump reacted to the new indictment by posting on his social network "Trut" in which he said that: "No other candidate for president or candidate for any other public office has had to faces attacks coming from the office of his political opponent using the law in his service".
According to analysts, it is almost improbable that the case will begin to be heard on its merits before the elections in November, and in the months after them.
The Democratic candidates for president and vice president of the USA - Kamala Harris and Tim Waltz, will give an interview to CNN on Friday night Bulgarian time. This will be Harris' first interview since taking over from Joe Biden after he withdrew from the race in November. Her staff rejected rival Trump's claim that the two had agreed to have their microphones turned off when they were not speaking during the Sept. 10 debate between them. The Harris campaign said the issue was still under negotiation with ABC, which will host the debate.
The two staffs clashed after the vice president's staff demanded the reinstatement of the open mic rule, while Trump threatened to back out and suggested the TV show was biased.