The special counsel's superseding indictment of Trump likely won't pass muster

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

42% : It only pours old wine into new bottles. Smith's original 45-page indictment, filed in D.C. a little over a year ago, identifies Trump as the "forty-fifth President of the United States and a candidate for re-election in 2020."
39% : Smith wants to skirt the self-evident truth that the office Trump occupied had everything to do with his efforts to prevent the peaceful transfer of power.
38% : Trump's lawyers argued before the Supreme Court that these were official acts for which Trump would be immune.
37% : " While Trump's whining is exaggerated, as most of his whinings are, he does have a point.
32% : Thus, while I admire Smith's deft attempt to maneuver his way through the labyrinth of Supreme Court verbiage, and prosecute Trump for those elements of his Jan. 6 conduct that were private and not official, I do not think it will likely work.
31% : The appeals court held that Trump might be liable for money damages because his Jan. 6 conduct was as a candidate for the presidency rather than as acts of the presidential office itself.
30% : The superseding 36-page indictment, presented to a new grand jury and filed Aug. 27, defines Trump as "a candidate for President of the United States in 2020" who "lost the 2020 presidential election.
30% : Chief Justice Roberts was clear that Trump was "absolutely immune from prosecution for the alleged conduct involving his discussions with Justice Department officials."
25% : Can Smith as a legal matter sidestep immunity with a new indictment by calling Tweedledee Tweedledum? The superseding indictment shifts the identification of those who allegedly conspired with Trump to steal the election.
24% : If Trump wins the election, the case is doomed; he will order the Justice Department to dismiss it.
21% : The superseding indictment is peppered with references to the Trump campaign as opposed to Trump the president.
19% : Here Trump is said to have enlisted a minor DOJ official, Jeffrey Clark, whom he wished to appoint attorney general after Bill Barr quit.
18% : Smith charges that Trump "used his campaign to repeat and widely disseminate" spurious claims of election fraud.
18% : The most remarkable addition to the indictment is the claim that Trump "continued his lies through the day of certification" up to his "Campaign speech at a privately-funded privately organized political rally held on the Ellipse," where he called upon the mob to march to the Capitol.
16% : Trump was quick to trash the new indictment in light of the Supreme Court immunity decision.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.