Trump argues against disclosure of certain details in major Jack Smith brief laying out new evidence in election case

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: CNN Politics

Published 3:19 PM EDT, Tue October 1, 2024


CNN — Former President Donald Trump is again claiming that special counsel Jack Smith is trying to influence the November presidential election by seeking to make new evidence and witness testimony public as voters start to go to the polls.

In a court filing Tuesday, the Republican White House nominee argued that more redactions are needed in a brief that Smith has filed under seal that will present the most comprehensive view yet of the special counsel’s case that Trump acted in criminally in trying to overturn the 2020 election.

The brief is aimed at convincing the trial judge in the case – and eventually, higher courts – that Smith’s case can survive under the Supreme Court’s recent ruling that said Trump had at least some presidential immunity in the prosecution.

The immunity filing is expected to be the fullest description of the case against Trump to date – a nearly 200-page legal brief that weaves the Justice Department’s sweeping grand jury investigation around the 2020 election into a narrative, akin to an opening statement at a trial. At stake in the current dispute over redacting the brief is how much the public will learn about what investigators found in the federal election subversion probe, particularly as a Trump win in November would likely end the prosecution.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/01/politics/trump-jack-smith-disclosure-evidence-argument/index.html

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Link to court FILING (PDF) - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.258149/gov.uscourts.dcd.258149.248.0_2.pdf

[BOSSHOG]

1. Your supreme court

Set this schedule Donald. And don’t cha just hate it when someone influences an election with the truth.

I’m not a lawyer but I play one on the internet. You are trying to influence the outcome of the election by keeping the Electorate from knowing more facts about your criminality. And you know it.

[rpannier]

2. Maybe it's time to take the lead from Minister Jim Hacker

[Lulu KC]

3. Wonderful show n/t

[iluvtennis]

4. Judge Chutkan won't go for this. She has consistently said

that the election doesn’t prohibit her court proceedings from proceeding.

[sanatanadharma]

5. Stopping disclosure of information is also election interference

[Ramsey Barner]

6. Gotta love how Trump argues that disclosures would put witnesses in danger...(from Trump's own MAGA followers)!

[ScratchCat]

7. The witnesses in this case

Are all of his former Cabinet members and aides who gave sworn statements to the DOJ that they told Trump there was no widespread fraud that could have changed the outcome and testimony that he was clearly aware of this when he was saying otherwise. Its the death nail in his coffin. There is no more wiggle room for defending his ridiculous claims.

[republianmushroom]

8. 44 months and counting

Un-redact all of it. Let the public be the JURY.

[iluvtennis]

9. Judge Chutkan released Jack Smith's Immunity Determinations brief today - see this DU link

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219526311

[BumRushDaShow]

10. I had posted the story in LBN with the file

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143316485

[iluvtennis]

11. My apologies. I did oook at LBN...but maybe were were posting simultaneously - you in LBN and me in General. n/t

[BumRushDaShow]

12. My headline was sortof boring so it might not have been obvious what it was about (and AP continually changes)

I don't normally go for "tabloid" headlines and AP sent out a breaking for this before the other sources, so I went with it... But many times, the more clicky-bait headlines are what are out there for some very important news items and ya just gotta go with those!