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>> The updated charges come after the Supreme Court's ruling on presidential immunity. Trump denies all wrongdoing in the case. ABC's Perry Russell has more now from Washington on the new superseding indictment charges former President Trump with the same for crimes as the previous indictment, including conspiracy to defraud the United States to obstruct the certification of electoral votes. >> On January 6th and conspiracy against the right to vote and to have one's vote counted. What's different is the charges are now only for what he allegedly did as a candidate for office, not as president. And his alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 election. The changes are in response to the Supreme Court decision on presidential immunity, which ruled the president is entitled, at a minimum, to a presumptive immunity from prosecution for all his official acts. These modify actions were done to ensure that the Supreme Court's ruling was respected. Trump calls the new indictment a direct assault on democracy. It looks like Jack Smith doing more what he does, which is filing these absurd lawsuits in an effort to influence the election. The new charges were filed 70 days before the election. Justice Department policy discourages prosecute voters from filing federal charges against candidates within 60 days of an election. Trump argues the 60 day window should include early voting, which starts next month. In some places. Trump's former white House lawyer Ty Cobb on CNN does this indictment make a clean cut case that the acts were personal ? >> I think it does. >> What do you think happens from here? >> Oh, I you know, he doesn't take he won't take this seriously until the you know, final gavel comes down and the jurors come back and say guilty. And, you know, he actually gets sentenced. Um, but it, um, you know, this will be a lot of delaying tactics by, uh, uh, by his lawyers. >> This case is different from Trump's classified documents case that was thrown out after the ruling on presidential immunity. Jack Smith is also overseeing in that case and is appealing that decision