Jack Smith Scorches Trump in New Court Filing, Moves to Stop Him from Injecting ‘Partisan Political Attacks’ Into Trial
Special Counsel Jack Smith wants to keep defendant Donald Trump from injecting “partisan political attacks” into his upcoming election subversion trial.
CNN’s Katelyn Polantz laid out what the filing meant to Trump’s case.
“Jack Smith wants to cut out all of the political arguments that Donald Trump makes out on the campaign trail from the courtroom for whenever he is before a jury,” Polantz said. She continued:
The court filing that came in today says a couple of things. They want the judge to say Trump can’t argue that he was being politically persecuted; that’s why he is going to be on trial. They don’t want him to be able to suggest disinformation about the 2020 election, suggest that he believed that the election was stolen from him. That shouldn’t be something before the jury, the Justice Department says at this time. They also say that Trump’s team shouldn’t be able to blame law enforcement, or foreign actors, or secret agents for what happened on January 6th.
The Hill published passages from the filing, which read, “Through public statements, filings, and argument in hearings before the Court, the defense has attempted to inject into this case partisan political attacks and irrelevant and prejudicial issues that have no place in a jury trial.
“Although the Court can recognize these efforts for what they are and disregard them, the jury — if subjected to them — may not. The Court should not permit the defendant to turn the courtroom into a forum in which he propagates irrelevant disinformation, and should reject his attempt to inject politics into this proceeding.”
Trump has been charged with four felonies, accusing him of conspiring to overturn the 2020 presidential election results. He has pleaded not guilty.
The trial is set to begin March 4 but will remain on hold until an appeals court decides whether Trump can claim presidential immunity protected him from prosecution. Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected Smith’s request to decide immediately on the immunity claim.
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