Former President Donald Trump responded Wednesday afternoon after the US District Judge Chutkan asked published a lengthy application by a special counsel Jack Smith in its investigation into Trump’s alleged attempts to disrupt the transition of power after the 2020 election.
Smith’s cardfiled last week but made public Wednesday, aims to convince Chutkan, who is overseeing the federal election tampering case, that Trump’s alleged crimes are private rather than official acts and can therefore stand in the indictment.
“Although the defendant was the sitting president during the charged conspiracies, his plan was essentially private,” Smith wrote in the brief. “When the defendant lost the 2020 presidential election, he resorted to crime to try to stay in office.”
Trump has pleaded not guilty to all charges, claiming the case is politically motivated against him.
Trump responded to the new filing Wednesday afternoon on Truth Social, writing:
“The release of this bogus, unconstitutional J6 instruction immediately after Tim Waltz’s disastrous debate performance, and 33 days before the most important election in our country’s history, is another blatant attempt by the Harris-Biden regime to undermine and weaponize American democracy, and INTERFERE IN THE 2024 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. Deranged Jack Smith, the hand-picked prosecutor at the Harris- Biden DOJ, and the Washington, DC-based Radical Left democratsis HELL BETTED on continuing to arm the Justice Department in an attempt to hang on to power. “TRUMP” is dominating the election cycle, leading in the polls, and the radical Democrats throughout the Deep State are “freaking out”. This entire case is a partisan, unconstitutional, witch hunt that should be completely dismissed, just like the Florida case was dismissed!”
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