BBC News: Donald Trump is indicted again

our correspondent K nasman has the latest from Washington Jack Smith is really recasting this case to try to keep its legal future alive it's not very different it still contains the same four criminal counts as the previous indictment related to Donald Trump's alleged efforts to try to overturn the results of the 2020 election but it is a little bit Slimmer this has been paired down this is actually copyri here of the new indictment it's 36 pages long rather than 45 in the original one so what's missing Well Jack Smith and his team have taken out some allegations that related to Mr Trump's conversations and activities with his own justice department that's because those likely fall under the umbrella of what's called official acts of a president and remember that crucial Supreme Court case earlier this year said that Donald Trump and presidents are immune from prosecution for their official acts while in office so kind of the everyday activities of a president that he's meant to be doing in terms of part of his job what this indictment now does do is kind of change the narrative a bit it talks about Donald Trump the candidate for president Donald Trump the personal citizen rather than Donald Trump the president so one example of that it discusses Within These Pages Donald Trump's tweets on his own Twitter account as a private citizen it also talks about other ways that he acted on January 6th really trying to take this away from his acts as a president president well Donald Trump has responded on his social media account he said that this is basically trying to resurrect what he calls a dead Witch Hunt of course he's always denied these charges and he continues to insist without evidence that this is all politically motivated of course we know the next presidential election coming up on November 5th less than 70 days away it's very unlikely that this will even begin that this trial will start before voters go to the polls