Former President Donald Trump is soliciting donations after this afternoon’s superseding indictment.
He said in an email, “I WAS JUST INDICTED AGAIN!” and called it “Another Jack Smith HOAX!”
Trump also slammed the superseding indictment in a series of posts on Truth Social.
“In an effort to resurrect a ‘dead’ Witch Hunt in Washington, D.C., in an act of desperation, and in order to save face, the illegally appointed ‘Special Counsel’ Deranged Jack Smith, has brought a ridiculous new Indictment against me, which has all the problems of the old Indictment, and should be dismissed IMMEDIATELY,” one post said.
“This is merely an attempt to INTERFERE WITH THE ELECTION,” Trump wrote.
What happened: Special counsel Jack Smith on Tuesday filed a reworked indictment in the federal election interference case against Trump. Prosecutors have not dropped any of the four charges that they initially brought against the former president.
However, the newly retooled indictment has carved out some of Trump’s alleged conduct, including allegations about the attempts to use the Justice Department to promote his false claims of election fraud. Prosecutors are working to try to comply with the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling.