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Former President Donald Trump has launched a scathing attack on special counsel Jack Smith after a federal judge in Washington, D.C. unsealed a 165-page court filing in the ongoing case accusing Trump of attempting to overturn the 2020 election results. The release of this document comes just over a month before the 2024 election, a crucial moment when voters will decide whether Trump will return to the White House.
The court filing, made public by special counsel Jack Smith on Wednesday, focuses primarily on Trump’s assertion that he is immune from prosecution due to the “absolute” immunity granted to presidents for actions taken while in office. Smith’s filing argues that Trump’s post-election actions were not part of his official duties but rather private efforts aimed at securing his re-election, making them ineligible for immunity protection.
“The defendant [Trump] asserts that he is immune from prosecution for his criminal scheme to overturn the 2020 presidential election because, he claims, it entailed official conduct,” the filing reads. “Not so. Although the defendant was the incumbent President during the charged conspiracies, his scheme was fundamentally a private one.”
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Smith emphasized that Trump’s attempts to overturn the election results were not tied to his presidential role, but were personal actions designed to keep him in power. The special counsel further alleged that Trump’s actions—particularly those involving pressure on state officials and the promotion of baseless claims of voter fraud—were carried out as a candidate, not as the president.
In response to the unsealing of the document, Trump took to his social media platform, Truth Social, to decry the filing as politically motivated. “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. THEY DISOBEYED THEIR OWN RULE IN FAVOR OF COMPLETE AND TOTAL ELECTION INTERFERENCE,” Trump posted. “I DID NOTHING WRONG, THEY DID! THE CASE IS A SCAM, JUST LIKE ALL OF THE OTHERS, INCLUDING THE DOCUMENTS CASE, WHICH WAS DISMISSED!”
Trump’s public remarks didn’t stop there. Appearing on NewsNation’s CUOMO, he referred to Smith as “a deranged person” and accused him of working under the orders of Vice President Kamala Harris and President Joe…
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