Donald Trump blasted Special Counsel Jack Smith after new evidence from the January 6th riots on Capitol Hill was made public just weeks before the election.
The former president accused President Biden’s Justice Department of ‘election interference’ after the release of 165 pages of evidence in his case – revealing private conversations Trump had with his employees, lawyers, and allies.
In a shock move, Washington, DC Judge Tanya Chutkan unsealed the filing and made it public Wednesday, despite Trump’s lawyers arguments against it.
‘FOR 60 DAYS PRIOR TO AN ELECTION, THE DEPARTMENT OF INJUSTICE IS SUPPOSED TO DO ABSOLUTELY NOTHING THAT WOULD TAINT OR INTERFERE WITH A CASE,’ Trump wrote in all-caps on his Truth Social social media platform.
Former President Donald Trump reacted angrily to new information made public about the case against him filed by Special Counsel Jack Smith.
The Department of Justice has no official ‘rule’ preventing a case to be brought 60 days before an election, but is considered a ‘general practice’ among law enforcement professionals in the department to avoid accusations of political motivation for cases.
The former president shared several posts on social media criticizing the decision as evidence of election interference by the Justice Department under Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.
Special Counsel Smith, however, has pressed forward on his trial even after the Supreme Court ruled that the president would be immune to prosecution for official actions he took as president of the United States, effectively delaying the trial until after the election.
Smith’s filing argues that Trump’s conduct surrounding January 6th were actions as a private individual and not as official acts of a president.
‘Donald Trump launched a “private criminal effort” to subvert the 2020 US election and should not be shielded by presidential immunity,’ he wrote.
This combination of pictures created on August 5, 2023 shows special counsel Jack Smith in Washington, DC, on August 1, 2023 and former US President Donald Trump in Palm Beach, Florida, on November 8, 2022.
Former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign event
Trump insisted, however, that Smith was out of line.
‘THEY DISOBEYED THEIR OWN RULE IN FAVOR OF COMPLETE AND TOTAL ELECTION INTERFERENCE,” he wrote.
The new filing reveals tense private conversations between Trump and his vice president Mike Pence, about his decision to certify the election, disputing with Trump and his allies that he had the legal power to stop it. It also describes actions the president took to cast doubt on the vote tallies in important swing states.
President Trump argued on social media that the new filing was just one more way that the Biden administration was trying to interfere with the election.
‘I DID NOTHING WRONG, THEY DID!’ he wrote. ‘THE CASE IS A SCAM, JUST LIKE ALL OF THE OTHERS, INCLUDING THE DOCUMENTS CASE, WHICH WAS DISMISSED!’
Earlier in the day, Trump described the new information as proof of ‘another obvious attempt by the Harris-Biden regime to undermine and Weaponize American Democracy’ by trying to distract from Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate Gov. Tim Walz’s debate performance on Tuesday evening.
‘Democrats are Weaponizing the Justice Department against me because they know I am WINNING, and they are desperate to prop up their failing Candidate, Kamala Harris,’ he wrote. ‘The DOJ pushed out this latest “hit job” today because JD Vance humiliated Tim Walz last night in the Debate.’
