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Prosecutors resubmit charges that Trump tried to overturn election

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Former US President and 2024 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gestures to the crowd after addressing the National Guard Association conference in Detroit, Michigan, on August 26, 2024. [AFP]

Prosecutors on Tuesday filed a revised indictment of Donald Trump, pressing ahead with bombshell charges that he tried to overturn the 2020 US election after losing to Joe Biden.

The superseding indictment retains the same four charges against Trump as in an earlier version but takes into account a recent Supreme Court ruling that a former president has broad immunity from criminal prosecution.

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